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Example Sentences
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Demographic pressures are compounding the challenge, with fewer young workers entering sectors such as manufacturing, while large portions of the workforce approach retirement.
If you try to please them halfway by giving them a portion of their father’s wealth, they will end up wanting more.
From MarketWatch
Satellite images show the Sierra Nevada before and after a major heat wave melted significant portions of California’s snow.
From Los Angeles Times
The status gives firms a grace period in which they are exempt from corporation tax, according to the paper, and instead issue a portion of the company's earnings to shareholders who are taxed individually.
From BBC
The Welsh Liberal Democrats said: "Councils are increasingly being forced to spend huge portions of their budgets on social care" and their plans to reform social care "would take pressure off local authority finances".
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
