Example sentences of "[be] fewer " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There will be fewer to bring it in next year , when the listed men have gone . ’ |
| 2 | There would be fewer people to cope with that way , and she was n't young any longer . |
| 3 | In the next few years there will be fewer young people and these tend to make up the majority of staff in many outlets , so caterers — and particularly the large chains — will come to rely more on automation in the near future . ’ |
| 4 | In future , there will be fewer Exxon Valdezes , because big oil companies will make sure that they do not own any oil until it arrives safely in port . |
| 5 | There will be fewer big action pictures and more romantic comedies . |
| 6 | And even if that does not happen at once , it will in the coming years , when there will be fewer workers and new-property owners to pay taxes , and more elderly in need of welfare services . |
| 7 | In the future there will be fewer farmers and farms able to generate sufficient income to survive from farm production alone . |
| 8 | ‘ The end result is likely to be fewer farms and fewer farmers able to generate an economically and socially acceptable income from farm production alone , ’ says the report , Unemployment in Europe . |
| 9 | Would there be fewer deaths if more farmers were taken to court , and faced higher penalties ? |
| 10 | In the same way a temple which was situated at the top of a flight of steps might be shown on top of steps , though the number of steps on the coin would normally be fewer than in reality . |
| 11 | Bob Murray , the Sunderland chairman , has made a personal plea to Football Association chief executive Graham Kelly over suggestions that there will be fewer Roker supporters at the final than at Sunday 's semi-final victory over Norwich when more than 22,000 travelled from Wearside to Hillsborough . |
| 12 | Males compete for females and thereby come to exclude one another from their ranges and , since male ranges are larger than those of females , there tend to be fewer males than females in any local community . |
| 13 | There will generally be fewer life years added by the treatment of older people and , similarly , those with a low quality of life — predominantly older people — will be disadvantaged by a QALY approach to life-saving measures . |
| 14 | As the size of barbel in a shoal becomes larger , so the number of fish in that shoal will be fewer . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . |
| 16 | There should therefore be fewer visits to the rough . |
| 17 | And if there were only two thousand living souls in Famagusta several days ago , there would be fewer now who were both soldiers and active . |
| 18 | YOUR earning potential is greater in 1993 , so in theory there should be fewer problems with money and material security . |
| 19 | There were now to be fewer and fewer Titfords in Frome as time went by ; many had died , some had left town for good . |
| 20 | Geoff Barnes of Casson Beckman believes that there would be fewer problems about audit fees if the audit was regarded as a more useful exercise both by members of the public and by business : ‘ As a profession we spend far too much time looking back and not enough time looking forward . ’ |
| 21 | He said the financial cutback meant there would be fewer concerts in a season . |
| 22 | The physical and psychological problems may or may not be fewer and less serious than the problems associated with other drugs , but who knows what kind of problems the cultural changes will produce ? |
| 23 | Looking ahead to the early twenty-first century , the smaller size of nuclear families in the late twentieth century makes it evident that there will be fewer relatives about to share family care although it is likely that many fewer people will be childless ( Rossiter and Wicks , 1982 , p. 66 ) . |
| 24 | As we get more efficient there may be fewer jobs , but they will be more interesting . ’ |
| 25 | A chain code can of course be fewer than five codes because certain letters are formed by strokes of fewer than five directions . |
| 26 | He expresses the view that strikes will be fewer in number where collective bargaining is conducted at higher levels and more numerous where there is plant bargaining , largely because , in the latter case , since all workers within an industry or region need not be brought out , strikes can be called at much less cost to the membership as a whole . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | It is not surprising , therefore , that most people assume that under private ownership services would be fewer , and charges would be higher . |
| 29 | One consequence of this control system will be fewer managers and more group/individual self-control . |
| 30 | At the most , this may amount to 20 people , and of these there will be fewer than 10 with whom I interact frequently . |