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By contrast, the local authorities have mainly helped small businesses in more labour-intensive industries.
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For the most part, these contract workers work under the supervision of permanent staff, performing more labour-intensive tasks.
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Like all forms of animation, this is time-consuming, labour-intensive and, therefore, expensive.
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Reductions in spending on labour-intensive services increase unemployment and hence social security costs.
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The project is what you might call labour-intensive .
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What they have to say throws doubt on previous inferences about how labour-intensive Maya agricultural techniques were, at least at San Antonio.
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Work on site, however, even in the 1980s remains fairly labour-intensive .