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Six example sentences with workforce, each labelled with its topic.
Half the region's workforce is employed in agriculture, which is why a bad harvest shows up in the unemployment figures.
Economics
The company grew from four people to a workforce of three hundred in under two years.
Startups
Wartime factories drew women into the workforce in numbers that permanently changed who held paid jobs afterward.
History
The plant's workforce of nine hundred learned of the merger from the radio before any manager spoke to them.
Business
The minister promised to retrain the coal workforce for wind farm jobs, though the turbines were built in another country.
Politics
The nursing workforce is ageing, and half the ward sisters in the region will retire within ten years.
Medicine
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