A number of people have been employed to deal with the backlog of work.

已雇来一些人处理积压的工作。

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The number of people employed in agriculture has fallen in the last decade.

过去十年，农业从业人数已经下降。

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The payroll survey also doesn't capture the number of self-employed, and so says little about how many people are generating an independent income.

工资单调查也没有统计个体经营者的数量，因此也没有说明有多少人在产生独立收入。

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The unemployment rate dropped anyway because the number of employed people leapt by 631, 000.

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The number of employed people dropped dramatically during the 18 month recession in 2008 and the first half of 2009, and for several months thereafter.

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Whereas the number of employed people in the U.S. fell by about 4.6 percent from July 2008 to July 2010, for teenage workers (a reasonable proxy for minimum wage workers), employment fell by a whopping 21 percent.

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