PRODUCTIVITY in a Sentence

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1. So, in productive subjects, grow the chapters.
2. The strike took a heavy toll in lost productivity.
3. They work hard, but their efforts are not very productive.
4. A comfortable working environment will increase productivity.
5. In the future, pay increases will be related to productivity.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of PRODUCTIVITY
productivity
 n.  (economics) the ratio of the quantity and quality of units produced to the labor per unit of time
 n.  the quality of being productive or having the power to produce
Classic Sentence: (62 in 5 pages)
1  During this colloquy, which always is productive of a delay of from one to two minutes, some one, a stranger, came and placed himself behind the hearse, beside Fauchelevent.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER V—IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO BE DRUNK IN ORDER TO BE ...
2  This violent fashion of driving a grandson to tenderness was productive only of silence on the part of Marius.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VII—THE OLD HEART AND THE YOUNG HEART IN THE PRES...
3  And as the Roman ordinances with regard to it were productive of much good, so the want of them in Florence has bred much mischief.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VIII.
4  My old master had many boys and girls, but not one, so far as I know, ever mastered a single trade or special line of productive industry.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter I.
5  My journeys became more and more extensive and more productive.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 44. The Vendetta.
6  Their visits to Mrs. Phillips were now productive of the most interesting intelligence.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
7  So, in productive subjects, grow the chapters.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 63. The Crotch.
8  Good fruit, Sir Knight," said the yeoman, "will sometimes grow on a sorry tree; and evil times are not always productive of evil alone and unmixed.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
9  He was intelligent, and just sufficiently educated to think himself a disciple of Epicurus; while he was, in reality, only a product of Pigault-Lebrun.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VIII—PHILOSOPHY AFTER DRINKING
10  This Thenardier female was like the product of a wench engrafted on a fishwife.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—TWO COMPLETE PORTRAITS
11  The monastery is the product of the formula: Equality, Fraternity.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV—THE CONVENT FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF PRINCIPL...
12  ; net product, year in and year out, seven hundred francs.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER II—MARIUS POOR
13  There appears, in the humid mist, the rat which seems the product to which Paris has given birth.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE LAND IMPOVERISHED BY THE SEA
14  Mr. Gradgrind was for ever working, in print and out of print, at this eccentric sum, and he never could make out how it yielded this unaccountable product.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VIII
15  They came from a part of the heath a quarter of a mile to the rear, where furze almost exclusively prevailed as a product.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  A comfortable working environment will increase productivity.
2  They have created an environment in which productivity should flourish.
3  The increase in pay costs was more than offset by higher productivity.
4  Farmers are struggling to maintain a level of productivity that generates an acceptable income.
5  In the future, pay increases will be related to productivity.
6  The third-quarter results reflect continued improvements in productivity.
7  It doesn't take a rocket scientist to work out that doubling productivity will improve profits.
8  The size of the crop depends on the productivity of the soil.
9  The strike took a heavy toll in lost productivity.
10  Mainstream economists profess much puzzlement over the failure of the rate of productivity growth to accelerate so far in this decade.
11  Now you can have a full-featured office productivity suite that's compatible with Microsoft Office at just a slice of the cost.
12  I believe the UK had experienced phenomenal increases in productivity before 1890.
13  We need management strategies to maximize the water productivity under drought and deficient water supply conditions.
14  They work hard, but their efforts are not very productive.
15  Could Helen Keller, blind and deaf since childhood, surmount her physical disabilities and lead a productive life?