Example sentences of "be fewer " in BNC.
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| 1 | Arguably the modern play with a limited cast is more effective in drawing in professional agents and casting directors since there are fewer ‘ bit ’ parts for students to get lost in . |
| 2 | There are fewer breweries operating in Britain today than when CAMRA began . |
| 3 | For myself , middle-aged and of a generally conservative disposition , I regret these changes , in particular the depreciation of the Anglo-Welsh occasions : not only because there are fewer of them but also because the clubs now tend to field their second XVs . |
| 4 | While night duty therefore affords a greater opportunity to ease , as a later chapter will emphasize , for most ordinary policemen and women this is little compensation for the boredom , for there are fewer opportunities for the diligent to ‘ make work ’ , the reverse process to easing . |
| 5 | That is , transfers are fewer for those in administrative posts and in specialist sex abuse units , and the hours of work are less disruptive to home life . |
| 6 | Whether it 's the Police Band or one from a nearby mill town , there are fewer nicer ways to end a summer day in Leeds than to sit in a deckchair at sunset , listening to the haunting sound of the trumpets and trombones . |
| 7 | Nowadays his mistakes are fewer , though Patsy reveals he is prone to hiding a few under the bed . |
| 8 | But there are fewer dolphins each year and they are more difficult to find . ’ |
| 9 | Sam Skinner , the American transport secretary , believes that even if there are fewer airlines in America ‘ robust competition will continue ’ . |
| 10 | Because there are fewer short than medium-sized men , a suit made to their measurements is less likely to find a buyer , and is knocked down accordingly . |
| 11 | The MLC expects European pig prices to fall further this summer , before recovering in the autumn , when there are fewer pigs on the market . |
| 12 | For there are fewer people working in agriculture and this is pushing the incidence rate back up . |
| 13 | Most new MPs enter the Commons in their thirties and forties ; there are fewer very young politicians , and — despite all the blather about the ‘ party of enterprise ’ — fewer going into politics in their fifties , after a successful career elsewhere . |
| 14 | This means that at a time of crisis , such as death , there are fewer people to turn to than there used to be when it was the norm to live much nearer to kinfolk . |
| 15 | If there are fewer people around who knew the person who has died , then there are also fewer people to notice that the person is no longer there , and there are fewer people to talk about missing him or her . |
| 16 | If there are fewer people around who knew the person who has died , then there are also fewer people to notice that the person is no longer there , and there are fewer people to talk about missing him or her . |
| 17 | Simon complains of ‘ the unsuitable blue chosen by Mr Serota ’ for the Tate 's walls and adds : ‘ If there is some deep strategy for this marginalisation of the British collection it is certainly making an impact , for there are fewer pictures on view than ever before . ’ |
| 18 | ( ’ Each time I take a good picture , I ask myself who can I show it to … but there are fewer people left . ’ ) |
| 19 | While small farmers and part-time farmers have to adapt to a changing agriculture , in exactly the same way as large farming businesses , their options for coping with changed circumstances are fewer and it may be that training and the development of new skills and the reinforcement of old skills are important elements in widening their range of options . |
| 20 | When there are fewer persons any supplements are given in the Price List . |
| 21 | Examples are fewer , it seems , than for matrilines but include spider monkeys , the red colobus , chimpanzees , and also the hamadryas baboon when movements between clans rather than in and out of harems is considered . |
| 22 | When fish stocks are severely depleted , their output is also reduced — because there are fewer fish remaining to reproduce . |
| 23 | Her Cloaths are fewer than the Time before . |
| 24 | There are fewer who read Czech poetry , or have their paintings exhibited regularly in London and Edinburgh . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | No doubt , as they are established , the pressures for dispersal are fewer . |
| 27 | In addition , the pattern of cleavage is both highly ordered and complex and there are fewer cells at the time when gastrulation begins . |
| 28 | There are fewer rules than in the above classes and racing only takes place in winds above 11 knots . |
| 29 | There are fewer districts than under the previous system . |
| 30 | The proportion , or percentage , is high because there are fewer people in manufacturing industries in this region than in other parts of Britain . |