And there are plenty of very good industrial companies - just because we aren't a leading industrial nation anymore doesn't mean there aren't good companies.

We are still (just about) an industrial nation.

He feels that, as the world's first industrial nation, we have a duty to lead others out of the mess that we have got them into.

Folk legend bemoans the resulting 'theft' of common lands, but enclosures were how an emerging industrial nation fed its urban workforce.

It had become inadequate for the needs of an expanding commercial and industrial nation.