Example sentences of "[prep] fewer " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Danes are traditional dairy cattle breeders , but since the Second World War the dairy herds have followed the British trend towards fewer , larger units and a certain amount of land has become available for beef-rearing on a minor scale . |
| 2 | But the age structure within this total has changed , in the 1970s and 1980s , towards fewer younger and more older people . |
| 3 | So an exchange rate of fewer than DM3 to the pound today might not be so inconsistent in market terms . |
| 4 | All of them had the attraction of fewer chores and a better library — as well as , for him , the genius loci of a childhood home . |
| 5 | The reduction in the number of Cabinet meetings ( 45 — 50 per annum , about half of the post-war norm ) , and of Cabinet papers ( 60 — 70 , or one-sixth of the figure in the 1950s ) , and the appointment of fewer Cabinet committees have reduced the opportunities for collective deliberation . |
| 6 | It is likely that a group of fewer than 100 boat people will be sent back just before the arrival in Hong Kong of the Foreign Secretary , Mr Douglas Hurd , planned for mid-January . |
| 7 | I can think of fewer couples more deserving of homage . |
| 8 | The dead bird , one of fewer than 200 surviving red kites in Britain and tagged by the RSPB , was found on farmland near St Austell , Cornwall , on Dec 16 . |
| 9 | In those days of fewer opinion polls they seemed to play a much smaller , less intrusive part in the elections . |
| 10 | The District became responsible for Terminal and Short courses extending over six to twelve meetings as well as a variety of informal , pioneering courses and discussion groups of fewer than six meetings ; the last category attracting grant-aid for the first time . |
| 11 | This combined number of fewer than 300 audit firms represents less than 3% of the total number registered . |
| 12 | Similar situations can be contrived with other months of fewer than 31 days . |
| 13 | A chain code can of course be fewer than five codes because certain letters are formed by strokes of fewer than five directions . |
| 14 | With the internationalization of capital and the concentration of power in the hands of fewer and fewer transnational corporations , national law violation may well become old fashioned . |
| 15 | Nutritionists and cartographers still draw the so-called ‘ hunger line ’ through Asia and the Americas ; the poorer people who live in those countries that are sandwiched between Mexico and Chile , and between North Korea and New Guinea , exist on diets of fewer than 2,250 calories a day , and thus go to bed each night hungry . |
| 16 | Thus there is clearly room for a variety of search firms in the market place , with the smaller firms being able to overcome the disadvantage of fewer contacts and less international experience by offering a cheaper , more personal and more specialised service . |
| 17 | The project , referred to as the Telal , Telecoms and Local Administrations , programme , aims to improve telecommunications services for the local administrations of towns of fewer than 20,000 inhabitants . |
| 18 | For smaller environments of fewer than 20 users , AV Image includes a Paradox database engine with networked multi-user file management on the server . |
| 19 | The outstanding fact of the position in 1974 was that the region had 6,000 beds within the six large hospitals , but serving a population of fewer than 4 million . |
| 20 | Even at this size it completely outclassed most Rutland villages , quite two-thirds of which had populations of fewer than 150 . |
| 21 | For the UK business scene at large , about 38% of companies have collected the VAT numbers of fewer than half their customers , according to a survey , VAT and 1993 : Is Europe Really Ready ? , compiled by accountants Arthur Andersen . |
| 22 | It is technical advance which makes it possible to create the world 's goods with the labour of fewer and fewer people . |
| 23 | In explanations of fewer days lost through strikes , in comment on superior quality products or in the relative ease with which robots are introduced into factories , workplace harmony is a common thread . |
| 24 | The pit canteen is the only women 's workplace , for example , in a pit village of fewer than 100 households I visited . |
| 25 | Size was one of their common characteristics : most were relatively small , and 81 had populations of fewer than 10,000 . |
| 26 | Because there is space to print only a small proportion of the letters received , priority is usually given according to general interest and topicality , to contributions of fewer than 500 words , and to contributions using simple language . |
| 27 | In the same vein , the Bullock Committee in 1977 noted that the ‘ last 20 years have seen the growth of the giant industrial enterprise and the concentration of economic power in the hands of fewer and fewer such companies . |
| 28 | In the North and West of England , however , the presence of fewer middle-class people , poorer communications and more difficult terrain has imposed a more limited distance on commuting . |
| 29 | In 1972 it expected that the new system of fewer and larger local authorities would prove more efficient . |
| 30 | He was one of fewer than a dozen leaders conversant with the Society 's policy of seeking French military help , and in 1796 he was appointed to the movement 's first national executive committee . |