Example sentences of "be [adj] fewer [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ms Abbott pointed out that although there are 12,000 fewer voters on her Hackney North and Stoke Newington register , only 55 per cent of registered voters visited the ballot box in June 1987 . |
| 2 | While it is true that working class politics is highly individualistic and subject to the so-called free rider problem , there are many fewer problems for capital . |
| 3 | If that were done , there would be far fewer appeals . |
| 4 | Someone once said , ‘ If fish could scream , there would be far fewer anglers . ’ |
| 5 | Authors are not supposed to avenge themselves in their writings , but they do , and if they were to be prevented , there would be far fewer books . |
| 6 | — there are far fewer letters than sounds , so that , for example , the five written vowels have to stand for two to three times as many spoken vowels ; |
| 7 | There are far fewer areas in the simulated map about which one would risk a definitive statement than in the map from the unsimulated process . |
| 8 | There are far fewer studies of the incidence of dementia . |
| 9 | Immediately the tarmac is soft and muddy , brown water gutters between the road and the wood and corrugated iron houses on each side , there are far fewer lights , open shop fronts are also cheap eating places and tiny spaces for sleeping . |
| 10 | Without the slightest doubt , there are far fewer gestures in the world than there are individuals . |
| 11 | Beyond the defended area , there are far fewer side-streets and lanes and occupation was concentrated along the main road frontages . |
| 12 | When we turn from personal evangelism to community-focused church-based evangelism there are far fewer books which provide practical help in this area . |
| 13 | There are far fewer mosaics of fourth century date in this region than there are in the West Country . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's cheaper than experimenting on people , and there are far fewer risks and restrictions . |
| 15 | After the guidelines were introduced there were 1582 fewer referrals for radiography and 223 additional referrals for ultrasonography from a registered population of 144 614 patients resulting in a potential saving of about £13 500 excluding ambulance costs . |
| 16 | Indeed , although there were fifteen fewer quangos overall than in the previous year , the twelve months ending April 1987 still saw sixty-six new bodies set up , the Ministry of Agriculture leading the way with twenty-eight . |
| 17 | The STA delegate meeting of 1905 passed a resolution urging branches to ban any new women entrants to the trade , and over the next year or so Edinburgh became increasingly isolated as first Aberdeen , then Dundee and Perth succeeded in closing the trade to new women recruits ( there were far fewer women compositors in these towns anyway ) . |
| 18 | There were far fewer flags , a distinct lack of appetite for celebration . |
| 19 | The roadside parking was more limited in those days , but of course there were far fewer cars about so we had no problems on that score , and the walk up to the lower tier was over in minutes . |
| 20 | Overall there were 5000 fewer jobs in 1984 than in 1966 . |
| 21 | The snag was that there were thousands fewer jobs available under the restructuring . |
| 22 | Instead , there are two fewer Members on the Conservative Benches than there were in July . |