Example sentences of "be [adv] fewer [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furthermore , we are usually left to infer , wrongly , that there are already fewer men and women of working age available to support a far greater number of dependents than was the case in the recent past and that the immediate future is likely to bring a worsening dependency ratio . |
| 2 | however/in any event ( adversative ) ; There are noticeably fewer conjunctions in the English text ( eight ) than in the German ( twelve ) . |
| 3 | This attitude has changed somewhat over the years and there are now fewer homes than there used to be . |
| 4 | The fiscal argument is that welfare state benefits for the poor cost relatively less in the more affluent States , because they are drawing on a larger tax base ; the higher the average income in a State , the smaller the effort required to finance a programme at a given level of payments ( because presumably there will be both fewer recipients plus more rich people to tax than in States with low average incomes ) . |
| 5 | The result is likely to be far fewer cautions . |
| 6 | And with the building societies coming under pressure from both consumer groups and the Government the signs are that there will be even fewer repossessions this year . |
| 7 | It is equally true that there would be even fewer breweries left if the Campaign had not opposed takeovers and mergers vociferously . |
| 8 | Michael is also informed that there are proportionately fewer females in the area with these disabilities . |
| 9 | There is a chronic shortage of donors and the increase in hospitals practising the operation means there are even fewer organs to go around . |
| 10 | During the scheduled 7 days of heparin use there were slightly fewer deaths in the aspirin plus heparin group than in the aspirin alone group ( 7.4 vs 7.9% , p=0.06 ) . |
| 11 | However , although there was less to be done , there were also fewer hours in which it could be accomplished . |
| 12 | So , that was when there were far fewer numbers of groups than there are now . |
| 13 | In the prince 's earldom of Chester there were even fewer changes . |
| 14 | In the prince 's earldom of Chester there were even fewer changes . |
| 15 | Table III shows the characteristics of patients with gastric metaplasia ; although there were relatively fewer cases of metaplasia in patients taking NSAIDs , the differences were not statistically significant . |
| 16 | A paired sample t-test showed that there were significantly fewer word-paths derived from Xs compared with Xu ( t + 2.01 , significant at the 97.5% level for a one-tailed test ) and fewer word paths from Ps compared with Pu ( t = 2.08 , significant at the 97.5% level for a one-tailed test ) . |
| 17 | There were significantly fewer patients , however , with supraventricular extra systoles when oxygen was given during gastroscopy ( p<0.05 ) . |
| 18 | There were significantly fewer patients with supraventricular extrasystoles when oxygen was given during gastroscopy compared with those receiving air — 15 ( 30% ) and 26 ( 49% ) respectively ( χ 2 =5.05 ; 0.01 |
| 19 | There were significantly fewer patients with supraventricular extrasystoles when oxygen was given during gastroscopy ( χ 2 =5.05 ; 0.01 |
| 20 | The attitude of most feminists appears to be that , if women have reached higher education , then they are ‘ successful ’ ; the only questions to be asked are why fewer women than men reach higher education in the first place , and why they are concentrated in different subject areas . |