Example sentences of "there be fewer [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This makes the second ferreting campaign very much easier since there are fewer holes to deal with . |
| 2 | The low patchiness of fruit associated with the richer ‘ fruit-floras ’ in America has resulted in the evolution of more diverse communities of frugivores with reduced dietary overlap , relatively small body size and sedentary ranging patterns , whereas in Asia , where fruit seems to be rarer in space and time , with fewer species , there are fewer frugivores with broadly overlapping diets ( e.g. terrestrial and brachiating primates ) , larger body size and more mobile ranging patterns . |
| 3 | Moreover , since only a policewoman can search a girl and there are fewer women police than men , girls became useful carriers of weapons or pills . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Bearing in mind that all the women who appear are portrayed as homemakers of one kind or another , it is significant that on the occasions when potentially humorous situations emerge , women are the ‘ butt of the joke ’ on six of these occasions ( and Audrey as a potential one ) , despite the fact that there are fewer women overall . |
| 6 | Although we believe there are fewer women coaches than men in Scotland , the Council does not have the figures . |
| 7 | It also needs to be recognized that in some authorities — particularly small district councils where there are fewer personnel , resources and programmes — much co-ordinating work occurs informally and the elaborate corporate structures advocated by Bains are perhaps less appropriate . |
| 8 | I would go so far as to say that one of the main reasons why there are fewer casualties among pedestrians and particularly children in countries such as West Germany is that that country has more flexibility in the use of speed limits . |
| 9 | It 's interesting , actually , since I teach a first year class of biologists , where we do have rather more girls than boys , that erm as a class it works very well , possibly better than some of our own chemistry classes where there are fewer girls , and I do n't know whether this is because of the mix or not . |
| 10 | If you are not too bothered erm , if you do n't know a priori where the break comes , you can just split the sample size in half and just estimate erm an equation for each , not less , you wo n't but the computer will , if you just specify half the sample size , right , and when it asks for the number of observations failure or Chow tests you just press the return key and it will use all the remaining observations , right , but when you are doing the empirical work you should always test for structural stability , right , and er either of Chow 's tests will , will suffice , right , but if you 've got a very small stock sample where there are fewer observations than there are parameters to be estimated you will have to use Chow 's second test failure . |
| 11 | The reason why there are fewer disconnections is that the electricity companies have introduced card meters , so that people cut themselves off rather than having to be cut off by the electricity companies . |
| 12 | Some groups can be more individualistic where the individual identifies less strongly , there are fewer icons , there 's less erm dogmatic er certainty about doctrine and so on , so more room for an individual variation and those groups will be relatively er looser and there would be less identification of the individual with the leader or the leading principals . |
| 13 | There are fewer runners now : whether the halfpence have not flowed so freely from the pockets of the tourists , or the youthful population has decreased , I can not tell . |
| 14 | Mergers between these firms have had the effect of reducing the number of accountants who do not have a conflict of interest , simply because there are fewer firms . |
| 15 | There are fewer breweries operating in Britain today than when CAMRA began . |
| 16 | When there are fewer persons any supplements are given in the Price List . |
| 17 | There are fewer rules than in the above classes and racing only takes place in winds above 11 knots . |
| 18 | In the UK , of course , there are fewer hours of sun in the winter than there are in summer . |
| 19 | In an industrialized urban area the job , especially in the northern authority , is essentially one of cleaning up heavily polluted rivers , but in rural areas , where there are fewer sources of pollution , field officers are more concerned with preserving high standards of water quality . |
| 20 | Because there are fewer runs of keys than separate keys , the results of division are likely to be more variable than those of genuine randomization . |
| 21 | This means that there are fewer paths , so the cover of a digraph may be smaller than the cover of the undirected graph . |
| 22 | It is a long way to Talisker , and there are fewer beasts to be met on the river than on the land these days . |
| 23 | ‘ There are fewer donors than ever before . |
| 24 | A return movement may occur in the autumn , although there are fewer records . |
| 25 | There are fewer contexts where only the bare infinitive seems appropriate . |
| 26 | ‘ There are fewer signals that way , ’ Crane pointed out , ‘ and they 've no reason to expect us down there . ’ |
| 27 | There are fewer shortages and queues are rare but inflation , at 2,000 per cent last year , means that prices are outside the reach of many . |
| 28 | The MLC expects European pig prices to fall further this summer , before recovering in the autumn , when there are fewer pigs on the market . |
| 29 | There are fewer jobs in chemistry than there used to be . |
| 30 | But there are fewer dolphins each year and they are more difficult to find . ’ |