The letter hasn t arrived yet. It takes 45 minutes to get to the airport from our office. The is not used before a noun when the noun refers to something general and unspecific and is uncountable or plural. Time is money. Industry needs good graduates.
Consultants specialise in giving advice.
She works in banking Microchips are used to make computers Banks provide firms with finance. We use the to refer to organisations such as the police the army the fire brigade the civil service the Inland Revenue 4. Countries and Nationalities. The is used to refer to people belonging to nation the Dutch the Irish the Portuguese the Bulgarians the Russians the Poles the Ukrainians 6. Other uses of the 8.