labour-intensive

How To Use labour-intensive In A Sentence

• Since smaller farms are more labour-intensive than larger, highly mechanised farms, they are less productive in this narrow sense.
• The European Commission proposes to allow seventeen Member States to either continue or start to apply reduced rates of Value Added Tax until 31 December 2010, on some labour-intensive services such as renovation of private dwellings, hairdressing, window-cleaning, domestic cares and small repairs.
• The directors examined the needs of the end-users of the glue dots, which tended to be labour-intensive contract packers or print finishers who added the free products to the magazines once they had been printed.
• Artists were suddenly able to sketch an outline in space and rapidly build up a three-dimensional form of substantial scale from scrap or cheaper materials without the labour-intensive and time-consuming process of carving or casting. Spotting the State of Art
• His technique shows a painstaking attention to detail in a labour-intensive process.
• Conventional wisdom is that such interventions on a large scale are high cost, labour-intensive, bureaucratic nightmares. The limits of 'big government'
• Growing sugar cane was a labour-intensive business, much more so than for other cash crops. Times, Sunday Times
• In the tropics, the process could be labour-intensive without being prohibitively expensive. Times, Sunday Times
• One characteristic of modern industry is that it is capital-intensive rather than labour-intensive and hence does not provide much employment.
• Important as this kind of extractive activity is to the nation's well-being, of its very nature it is not nearly as labour-intensive as end product manufacturing and distribution. Build Industry—Build Canada