Example sentences of "be fewer [noun pl] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just because , therefore , there are fewer women in physics than in English , does n't mean to say that they are any worse off : the opposite may be true . |
| 2 | Sam Skinner , the American transport secretary , believes that even if there are fewer airlines in America ‘ robust competition will continue ’ . |
| 3 | There are fewer child-characters in the current volume : a pity , because Tolstaya is absolutely atuned to the prelapsarian wavelength . |
| 4 | There are fewer jobs in chemistry than there used to be . |
| 5 | There are fewer organisations in the market than hitherto ( although the demands of each have increased proportionately ) . |
| 6 | There are fewer hazards in this picture , but still enough to get you thinking . |
| 7 | and also that , that there might be , there might be fewer houses in the |
| 8 | ‘ Today , and in the future , there will be fewer women in the community in the potential carers age groups vis-à-vis those requiring care . |
| 9 | He said the financial cutback meant there would be fewer concerts in a season . |
| 10 | But countries can not have it both ways : the cost of a cleaner environment may sometimes be fewer jobs in dirty industries , which will migrate to less environmentally sensitive lands . |
| 11 | Will the Minister confirm that there will be fewer jobs in opencast mining as a direct result of the Government 's policies ? |
| 12 | A large-scale investigation in five different republics in the late 1970s , for instance , found that there were fewer differences in educational attainment among younger age-groups than among their older counterparts . |
| 13 | Earlier in this chapter , reference has already been made to the decline in WEA activity in Bedfordshire and by the end of the war there were fewer classes in the county than had existed in 1935 and most of these were concentrated in the urban areas such as Bedford , Dunstable , Leighton Buzzard and Luton . |
| 14 | Perhaps there were fewer eels in the river than last year . |