Example sentences of "for fewer " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's a sign of the times that pop-as-reinvention-of-the-self is something that resonates for fewer and fewer people in the world that is the music press readership . |
| 2 | While all areas of the country have lost employment as a result of the need for fewer workers , rural areas have gained in that they can accommodate new floorspace . |
| 3 | BBC engineers are divided between hacking a Scandinavian proposal to standardise across Europe on eight-channel sound in a gaggle of different languages or , as many want , to go for fewer channels carrying the kind of sound quality available on the new digital discs that are now in British shops . |
| 4 | He also aired his anxieties — particularly about the distinction between pharmaceutical developments that make treatment easier and cheaper , and technology that mobilises more resources for fewer people . |
| 5 | Under the old rules England 's revised objective would have been 194 off 41 overs ( 41 × 4.72 ) , requiring a further 132 from 29 overs at 4.55 — not only less than 4.61 but having to be maintained for fewer overs . |
| 6 | The supply of domestic staff in Britain had dwindled after the First World War , when former servants found better paid employment for fewer hours ' work in offices and factories . |
| 7 | Labour in Japan does tend to work for fewer employers over a typical career and does therefore tend to stay longer in each firm than in the West , but there are very significant variations depending on age , firm size and gender . |
| 8 | Indeed , advocates of floating have frequently argued that the need for fewer rules , and reduced formal cooperation , confers an important advantage on the present system over its predecessor . |
| 9 | Compared with the 165 males , the 143 female patients had a significantly higher mean random haemoglobin A 1 value despite having had diabetes for fewer years ( females : mean 9.5 years ; males : mean 10.3 years ; p=0.36 ) . |
| 10 | Common philosophy : What is becoming clear as the partnership progresses is that BP and Unipart share a common philosophy — based on quality products , a focus on giving customers the best possible service , and a commercial drive to get more bang for fewer bucks . |
| 11 | We argued for a more discriminating balance of questions , statements and instructions ; for fewer pseudo-questions and more questions of a kind which encourage children to reason and speculate ; for more opportunities for children themselves to ask their own questions and have these addressed ; for oral feedback to children which without being negative is more exact and informative than mere praise ; for both questioning and feedback to strike a balance between the retrospective function of assessing and responding to what has been learned so far , and the prospective function of taking the child 's learning forward ; and for much more use to be made of structured pupil-pupil interaction both as a learning tool and as a means of helping teachers to function in a more considered manner and therefore more effectively . |
| 12 | However , it is common for fewer than twelve notes to be used over specific areas , or for certain notes to be repeated or used more than others , as long as the general non-tonal effect is maintained . |
| 13 | I do n't want to have fewer people for fewer people 's sake , but we simply ca n't afford to continue as we were . |
| 14 | Much of the savings , in the official view , will arise from the new structure 's needs for fewer managers , but even that is less than convincing for there is great scope for an increase in bureaucracy , from the need to dispatch the business deriving from the newly acquired functions to the formation of twice the number of existing education , roads and social work departments . ’ |
| 15 | It is a reason not for more guillotines , but for fewer . |
| 16 | They would accept directives such as those calling for fewer part-time workers , and would welcome a 48-hour rule . |
| 17 | The use of e-mail , rationalisation of collection points , concentration of staff in the Inverleith Row premises , and reduction in the frequency of collections are likely to lead to a requirement for fewer staff to be deployed on Messenger duties . |
| 18 | As announced on June 17 the offer to the general public was 3.2 times subscribed ; accordingly some of the shares allocated for institutional investors ( in part by tender ) and for overseas investors were " clawed back " to favour ( i ) customer applicants ; and ( ii ) other individuals who had applied for fewer than 1,000 shares . |
| 19 | The product sectors on which we have focused will , I believe , be proven to be increasingly beneficial to us as consumers look for fewer but better quality , better value products . |
| 20 | CLO patients who did smoke started to smoke at a slightly later age , smoked for fewer years , and accumulated fewer pack years of smoking than the severe reflux oesophagitis group . |
| 21 | In the election of October 1974 , the Labour party obtained a bare majority of seats for fewer than 40% of the votes cast . |
| 22 | I felt guilty — after all , they had trained me — but in the end I saw so many of my friends making the move , I saw them working in better conditions , earning so much more for fewer hours , ’ she grimaced , ‘ in the end I decided I 'd be crazy not to join them . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Slower speeds , fewer accidents ’ Parked cars on roads surrounding Darlington Memorial Hospital would make for fewer car accidents . |