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Six example sentences with bureau, each labelled with its topic.
The new bureau answers to the treasury secretary and employs four hundred statisticians in a single office building.
Politics
Congress folded the licensing office into a larger bureau so that one agency would issue every permit.
Law
Exporters complain that the bureau takes eleven weeks to stamp paperwork that private inspectors clear in three days.
Business
On the first Friday of each month the labor bureau releases its jobs count, and markets swing on a few thousand positions.
Economics
Congress created a bureau in 1865 to help freed families find land, schooling, and fair contracts for their work.
History
The land bureau manages a tenth of the country's acreage, deciding where cattle graze and where mines may open.
Environment
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