In June 2010, manufacturing in the United Kingdom accounted for 8.2% of the workforce and 12% of the country's national output. The East Midlands and West Midlands (at 12.6 and 11.8% respectively) were the regions with the highest proportion of employees in manufacturing.he growth was driven by international trading relationships Britain developed with Asia, Europe and the Americas, as well as entrepreneurialism, work ethic and the availability of natural resources such as coal.
An overline, overscore, or overbar, is a typographical feature of a horizontal line drawn immediately above the text. In mathematical notation, an overline has been used for a long time as a vinculum, a way of showing that certain symbols belong together.
underlie (third-person singular simple present underlies, present participle underlying, simple past underlay, past participle underlain) (intransitive) To lie in a position directly beneath. A stratum of clay underlies the surface gravel. To lie under or beneath. To serve as a basis of; form the foundation of.