Between 1970 and the present, the economy's output of manufactures roughly doubled; but, because of increases in productivity, employment actually declined slightly.
The rate of employment has dropped in the last 40 years.
Manufacturing has dropped off by half in recent decades.
Chefs are by a food table.
There are people talking at night.
The couple is at the zoo.
He did not tell us it would have been an issue.
the girls look at a television
The flames went out and it was dark.