If, for instance, wages were regulated by a yearly increase of capital, at the rate of 2 per cent.
Supposing corn and manufactured goods always to sell at the same price, profits would be high or low in proportion as wages were low or high.
No wages were paid at these harvestings, but the unlimited amount of eating and drinking was very expensive, and about this date the practice of using hired labour had largely superseded this old custom.
At Chester at the same date his day's wages were to be 4d.
My husband’s wages were £1 per week; we did our own housework at night, and I baked and ironed on Saturday morning.
When my boy was born, twelve months after marriage, my husband’s wages were 25s.
I could not have paid for a doctor, as wages were only £36 a year, and I had to pay £10 a year rent out of that.
I couldn’t tell you exactly what my wages were, but I feel almost sure, to take the years through, they never amounted to £1 a week.
If wages were to absorb the latter also, the mere owner of capital would cease to have any interest in the progress of production.
If now, the rate of wages were to rise, and the interest on capital to fall in the same proportion, the commodities produced by undertaker No.
When the price of billets went up, wages were to go up correspondingly, and when the price of billets went down, wages were to be correspondingly lowered.
They sought no advance in wages, but it was a foregone conclusion that, ifwages were to be depressed, they would offer implacable resistance.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wages were" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
