Below you will find example sentences with "national minimum". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.

National Minimum in a sentence

Corpus data

  • Displayed example sentences: 20
  • Discovered as a combination around: minimum
  • Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 13
  • Phrase length: 2 words
  • Average sentence length: 31.7 words

Words in this phrase

national minimum

Meanings of words in this phrase

  • national can mean: Pertaining to a nation or country, especially as a whole; affecting, shared by, or existing throughout all of a nation. Common word
  • minimum can mean: The lowest limit. Frequent word

Sentence profile

  • Phrase position: 6 start, 11 middle, 3 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Usage patterns

These patterns show short text windows around the phrase in the example sentences:

a miserable national minimum wage portends 1× a new national minimum wage adding 1× a new national minimum wage for 1× a new national minimum wage had 1× above the national minimum wage come 1× amend the national minimum wage act 1× and the national minimum wage a 1× and the national minimum wage for 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

amanda gearing gmb 1× he added paying 1× impending rises in 1× inaugurating the committee 1× it was gathered 1× more than six 1×

Common sentence endings:

65s in favour 1× a decent life 1× and private sectors 1× applies to all 1× april 1 2022 1× april 18 2019 1×

Context words

These words often appear near this phrase in the example sentences:

wage 35× new 7× workers 7× president 5× living 4× bill 3× increase 3× committee 3× assembly 3× april 3× act 2× 2019 2×

Related phrases

minimum wage national park national hurricane national weather national intelligence national electoral national forest republican national democratic national minimum temperature

Phrases around this combination

Other phrases discovered around minimum:

minimum wage 20× table minimum 8× minimum wages 7× new minimum 7×

Just before it in the phrase index:

national leadership national landscape national laboratory national junior national intelligence national instrument

Just after it in the phrase index:

national museum national nurses national olympic national opera national park national parks

Other phrases with the same pattern

Same start:

national park national hurricane national weather national intelligence national electoral national forest

Same ending:

table minimum new minimum mandatory minimum

Corpus analysis

  • The phrase "national minimum" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 31.7 words and is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as a miserable national minimum wage portends, a new national minimum wage adding, wage, new and workers stand out.
  • In the phrase index, this combination connects with minimum wage, national park, national hurricane, minimum wage, table minimum and minimum wages, linking the page to nearby combinations.

Example types with national minimum

This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:

Short example sentences

It was gathered that both the National Minimum Wage and the National Living Wage exist in the United Kingdom. (19 words)

The cabinet last approved an increase of 28.5 per cent in the national minimum wage on April 1, 2022. (20 words)

He said that the National Assembly would ensure that the National Minimum Wage is pursued to a logical conclusion and implemented by the government. (24 words)

Longer example sentences

The transmission of the wage bill came about six weeks after the President said in his Democracy Day speech on June 12, 2024, that an executive bill on the new national minimum wage for workers would be sent to the National Assembly for passage. (44 words)

The Bill, inter alia seeks to amend the National Minimum Wage Act, 2019, to increase the National Minimum Wage and reduce the time for periodic review of the National Minimum Wage from Five (5) years to Three (3) years, and for Related Matters. (43 words)

Rebecca also told the Press: “The increase in national minimum wage and national living wage is important as well, as it is almost forcing businesses to become minimum wage employers which is something that is a shared goal among colleagues to avoid. (42 words)

Example sentences (20)

The Bill, inter alia seeks to amend the National Minimum Wage Act, 2019, to increase the National Minimum Wage and reduce the time for periodic review of the National Minimum Wage from Five (5) years to Three (3) years, and for Related Matters.

Rebecca also told the Press: “The increase in national minimum wage and national living wage is important as well, as it is almost forcing businesses to become minimum wage employers which is something that is a shared goal among colleagues to avoid.

The 37-member Tripartite Committee on National Minimum Wage has formally submitted its report to the Federal Government, recommending a new national minimum wage for Nigerian workers across the public and private sectors.

The NLC president urged workers to remain firm in the struggle for a new national minimum wage, adding that Nigerians should vote out any political party that refuses to pay the new national minimum wage of N30,000.

Inaugurating the committee in the Council Chamber of the Presidential Villa in Abuja, Buhari said that re-negotiation of a new national minimum wage had become imperative because the existing minimum wage instrument had since expired.

They believe this should include looking at introducing a carers minimum wage which would see people in social care paid at least £2 an hour more than the national minimum wage.

The One Wage Campaign is calling on the National Minimum Wage Commission to phase out the minimum wage system and replace it with one wage structure that applies to all.

He said: “On 27th November 2017, I inaugurated the National Minimum Wage Committee with a mandate to recommend a new minimum wage for the workers of our country.

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He added, “Paying a miserable national minimum wage portends grave danger to not only the workforce but the national economy as in truth, economies of most states are driven by workers’ wages.

Impending rises in the National Living Wage for those aged 21 and over, and the National Minimum Wage for those under 21, will contribute to higher fixed costs.

It was gathered that both the National Minimum Wage and the National Living Wage exist in the United Kingdom.

The transmission of the wage bill came about six weeks after the President said in his Democracy Day speech on June 12, 2024, that an executive bill on the new national minimum wage for workers would be sent to the National Assembly for passage.

The above quotes were the exact words of Mr Ita Enang, Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters, after Buhari signed the new National Minimum Wage into law, on April 18, 2019.

He said that the National Assembly would ensure that the National Minimum Wage is pursued to a logical conclusion and implemented by the government.

Amanda Gearing, GMB Senior Organiser, said it was ‘sickening’ that Amazon workers in Coventry will earn just 8 pence above the National Minimum Wage come April 2023.

He said the National Minimum Standards and Establishment of Institutions Act 2004 also empowered NUC to accredit degrees and other academic awards in consultation with universities, with the approval of the President through the Minister of Education.

More than six in 10 people thought it was too low and that it should be replaced with the National Minimum Wage, with 71% of the over-65s in favour.

Seemingly addressing workers’ outcry over the current national minimum wage set at N30,000, the President-elect, Bola Tinubu, has promised a “living wage” that guarantees a “decent life”.

Taxi drivers in Wigan could be entitled to thousands of pounds in compensation after being denied holiday pay and the national minimum wage, a law firm has claimed.

The cabinet last approved an increase of 28.5 per cent in the national minimum wage on April 1, 2022.

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