Example sentences of "having fewer " in BNC.
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| 1 | So it would seem that people in homes where they were free to have a doctor of their own choice were not seen as being more deprived of visits in spite of having fewer of them than people in homes where everyone had the same doctor . |
| 2 | The level of Telford 's line was 54 feet lower than Barnes 's and , having fewer locks , would not only have used less water , but also more water could have been drained into it . |
| 3 | Having fewer children , of course , gives rise to a situation which so many 20th-century parents will understand only too well : that one minute there are young babies in the house needing constant attention , while the next , in the twinkling of an eye it seems , Darby and Joan are staring around an empty house and having to re-learn the art of living with each other all over again . |
| 4 | In his view , in the 1970s the drop in children available for adoption led adoption pressure groups to advocate a kind of fostering closer to adoption , with the natural parents having fewer rights to intervene in the foster placement . |
| 5 | Moreover , some of them are relatively small , having fewer than 500 students ; and given the inevitability of cuts in teacher-training quotas and the DES ban on diversification into other full-time courses , their full-time student numbers are likely to shrink still further . |
| 6 | As a result women are having fewer children — from 5–7 in 1970 to 3–6 in 1990 . |
| 7 | The Conservatives , although having fewer seats than Labour , had a larger share of the vote : Votes Share of vote Labour 8,389,512 37.1% Conservatives 8,656,473 38.2% Liberals 5,308,510 27.7% |
| 8 | Having fewer suppliers makes it easier to move towards just-in-time delivery of components . |
| 9 | Overseas branch offices also have compulsory cover under the Solicitors ' Indemnity Fund , except in the case of an MNP having fewer than 75% solicitor principals . |
| 10 | In the report by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation , interviews with 48 households with pre-payment meters found people were limiting fuel consumption by having fewer cooked meals and using less hot water . |