Example sentences of "have fewer [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You are not necessarily at any more risk of malignant melanoma than someone who has fewer moles . |
| 2 | We have already described three ultrastructural patterns of contact between Helicobacter pylori ( H pylori ) and gastric epithelium : ( 1 ) H pylori in the mucus layer resting on the short microvilli of normal looking epithelial cells ; ( 2 ) H pylori at intercellular junctions ; ( 3 ) H pylori adherent at specific junction zones directly or with filamentous appendages anchoring the organisms to an epithelial surface , which has fewer microvilli and mucoid granules in the absence of a mucus layer . |
| 3 | The Junior Section has between 30 to 40 members but some are to be promoted to the Senior Section which has fewer members . |
| 4 | The Junior Section has between 30 to 40 members but some are to be promoted to the Senior Section which has fewer members . |
| 5 | Robert Eccleshall has fewer pretensions than Ted Honderich but his book is much more coherent . |
| 6 | It has fewer benefits to dispense than previously , yet is faced with a plethora of interests , each of which is unwilling to moderate its demands in the interests of all . |
| 7 | Fruit and vegetable fibre is preferable to cereal fibre for the following reasons : generally has fewer calories green vegetables have more vitamins and minerals it is better at lowering blood cholesterol levels higher consumptions of vegetables and fruit are associated with a lower risk of coronary heart disease it does not contain phytic acid which blocks the absorption of many important minerals and some vitamins . |
| 8 | Second , sCD2 is markedly longer than CD4(D1D2) , although it has fewer amino acids , so increasing the exposure of the putative ligand binding face ( the domain-1 GFCC'C sheet ) , an effect that is magnified by a third difference , the tilt of the outer domain to maintain this sheet roughly parallel to the cell surface . |
| 9 | More literary verse usually has fewer levels of metrical organisation , thus allowing the poet a more flexible use of language . |
| 10 | In 1993 , eight years short of its 250th anniversary , and still trading under its original name , it has fewer branches than Thins and a turnover probably around £13m ( Thins is believed to be around £15m ) . |
| 11 | In scene two , he actually has fewer words per turn than his ex-student Pavel Hollar ( 11.5 against Hollar 's 12.3 ) , and in scene nine , less than Hollar 's son ( 8.2 against 13.6 ) . |
| 12 | Even if he has fewer votes than his competitors jointly , he is still the winner by virtue of having more votes than any one of them . |
| 13 | As the Islamic calendar has fewer days than the Gregorian and there is no allowance for the imperceptible tilt of our spinning world , their months are twenty-nine or thirty days long , never thirty-one . |
| 14 | The classless society has fewer class players than at any time in the game 's history . |
| 15 | O. densa has fewer arm spines , 4–5 as opposed to 7–8 , the oral frame is not raised away from the ventral portion disk , there are no trifid spinelets amongst the rods of the disk as there commonly are in O. smitti and the arm spines do not form a fan on proximal arm segments . |
| 16 | Ophiactis balli differs from O. abyssicola in the following characters : it only has one distal oral papilla , which arises on the oral plate , it has fewer arm spines and the shape of the ventral arm plates which are almost square compared to the distinctly pentagonal plates of O. abyssicola . |
| 17 | Young skin is not only thinner but also has fewer pigment cells and is less able to protect itself from the sun . |
| 18 | SADDAM HUSSEIN has fewer detractors in Asia , the American-led operation against him fewer sympathisers . |
| 19 | Because on the basis of the economic models and the way which we look at determinants of demand in economics , this should n't have happened , we should have had the reverse , we should have had fewer holidays being taken and certainly fewer overseas holidays . |
| 20 | By contrast , the English seem to have had fewer ships at this period , although Edward III had some royal ships , and vessels were built for largely defensive purposes . |
| 21 | Common law marriage or simple espousal allowed women to retain financial independence By definition , of course , women at the lower levels of society would have had fewer assets to control . |
| 22 | It is also certain that the number thirty-three in one of the quotations is a textual corruption : the Galatica may have had fewer books . |
| 23 | I wish I 'd had fewer children — if I 'd known the way prices would go up … |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Having fewer suppliers makes it easier to move towards just-in-time delivery of components . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | As a result women are having fewer children — from 5–7 in 1970 to 3–6 in 1990 . |
| 28 | 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% |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Fewer pupils will attend the schools and they will thus have fewer teachers . |