Wheat production takes 50% of its energy input for these two items alone.

小麦生产仅在这两项上就占其能源投入的50%。

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Energy is an essential resource across the entire food production cycle, with estimates showing an average of 7-10 calories of input being required in the production of one calorie of food.

在整个食品生产周期中，能量是一种必不可少的资源，据估计，生产一卡路里的食品平均需要7-10卡路里的投入。

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The third source of monopoly is control of an essential, or a sufficiently valuable, input to the production process.

垄断的第三个源泉是对生产流程的某个关键或足够有价值的输入要素的控制。

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"Fertilizers represent about 20 percent of the input costs in rice production for farmers."

VOA: standard.2010.07.28

Fashion items for the retail shops in the UK. Now I though that all of that was done in China, India, Bangladesh and so on, as sewing garments really is a high labourt input production line.

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Jobs, as an input to production, by definition add to the cost of whatever the final good or service in question is, compared to doing the same with fewer or no employees.

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Trustworthy economic data is a very valuable public good that serves as a useful production input for tons of private businesses.

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