Example sentences of "[prep] the number of worker " in BNC.
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| 1 | An inquiry directed at a not necessarily random sample of employers in 1984 asked about the number of workers they had whose stay with the organisation was recognised by both sides as being temporary . |
| 2 | The figures in column ( 3 ) show the number of registered job-seekers as a percentage of the number of workers in the social sector ( both productive and non-productive ) . |
| 3 | This result underlines the importance of employing a measure which takes account of the number of workers in question in relation to the total number of employees in the organisation when testing propositions about the influence of size on personnel practices . |
| 4 | Even as a proportion of the number of workers on strike for two weeks or more , the figures are still very small — 4.4 per cent in 1965 and 36.8 per cent in 1971 , the year of the post office workers ' strike . |
| 5 | This was clearly reflected in the number of workers and mills engaged in making cloth . |
| 6 | Indeed there remains sufficient slack in some sections of the labour force and enough new technological innovations on the horizon for there to be no end in sight to the continuing reduction in the number of workers in the industry . |
| 7 | On arable farms , traditionally the most labour-intensive section of the industry and now the most capital-intensive , the changes wrought by technological innovation have not only resulted in a reduction in the number of workers , but a dramatic decrease in the division of labour among those that remain . |
| 8 | National income [ she concludes ] was increased by an amount equivalent to 0.3% per annum due to the decline in mortality rates , from the 1900 level ( assuming , as does Denison that a 1% rise in the number of workers , other factors held constant , yields a 0.73% rise in national income for this period ) . |
| 9 | Secondly , there has been a drop in the number of school leavers as a result of the fall in the birth rate between 1964 and 1977 causing a drop in the number of workers from this age group . |
| 10 | There was a dramatic fall too in the number of workers whose radiation dose exceeded 15 millisieverts , down from more than 100 to less than 10 . |
| 11 | With the company having invested heavily in plant-specific training for a particular worker , and output from the plant not being directly related to the number of workers in the plant , firms operating these technologies will be reluctant to hire and fire such highly trained workers in line with fluctuations in product demand . |
| 12 | Whereas all the trends erm I would submit , sir in in economic activity , are suggesting that employ average employment levels and densities are falling , partly because of improved working conditions that workers require and also because of er modern processes and site layouts er have lower densities , all of which suggests that depression on the number of workers per hectare rather than an increase which is where the county 's head is at . |
| 13 | West Midlands bureaux managers may feel proud at the number of workers who reported that they were very satisfied and could think of no way in which they would do things better . |
| 14 | But that is measured by the number of workers — which has declined sharply . |
| 15 | So the ‘ quantity ’ of services provided ( measured , for example , by the number of workers employed in providing them ) rose no faster than output as a whole . |