In a sentence
Six example sentences with sector, each labelled with its topic.
Manufacturing shrank to a tenth of output while the services sector absorbed most of the workers leaving the factories.
Economics
The fund holds nothing outside the energy sector, so a single oil price shock moves its whole valuation.
Finance
Three founders left banking for the health sector, betting that clinics would pay for software hospitals had ignored.
Startups
The public sector employs a third of the town, so any talk of cutting council jobs decides the election.
Politics
The technology sector hired faster than any other, and the city's rents doubled in five years.
Technology
Retail is the one sector where the firm has never turned a profit, despite three attempts in twenty years.
Business
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