Even if your sector or nation is lucky enough to be awash with workers, falling pension returns mean you will probably want to stay on anyway.

BBC: Business

He predicts the Olympics will be awash with the stuff.

BBC: Why are athletes wearing coloured tape?

At first glance the office appeared to be awash with T-shirts and ponytails, more like a technology firm than a government department, though with much worse coffee and no free food.

BBC: All right gov? Can government do the web?

And a country awash with weapons would be plagued by the very violence that the world was seeking to avoid.

ECONOMIST: Arab revolutions

Developed economies are awash with public data to be crunched and pored over by analysts and market researchers.

ECONOMIST: A survey of Asian business

She sometimes writes as though America were awash with role-confused microserfs longing to be self-fulfilled furnace-men.

ECONOMIST: American men