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EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Workers in uneconomic areas of the economy fought hard to keep their factories and mines open.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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All of this saves considerable cost without which the production of many foods would be uneconomic or impracticable.
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Now oil has also become uneconomic , forcing N. Ireland's gas undertakings to close.
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Previously you had to be part of a quarrelsome, uneconomic unit of orthodoxy known as a church.
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The National Coal Board wanted to close some uneconomic pits and their advice was that this could be achieved by local talks.
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Therefore, the Beeching proposals were quite drastic, although arguably there was no commercial alternative to closing numerous uneconomic lines.
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To remove water from fermented alcohol on this scale would require quite uneconomic amounts of energy.
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Vast subsidies were going to uneconomic nationalized industries and local government was heavily overspending.
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Was it not uneconomic to employ older workers whose apparent competence simply masked inevitably growing incapacity?