Example sentences of "[vb mod] [be] fewer " in BNC.
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| 1 | YOUR earning potential is greater in 1993 , so in theory there should be fewer problems with money and material security . |
| 2 | It recommended , in brief , that council members confine themselves to debating broad issues of social policy , leaving the professionals responsible for the detailed execution ; that there should be fewer committees and a management board of about seven council members supported by a corresponding group of chief officers to make most policy decisions on a corporate basis . |
| 3 | There should be fewer larger committees responsible for a whole range of related services-leisure , transport , education , housing , social services , for example . |
| 4 | and also that , that there might be , there might be fewer houses in the |
| 5 | There 'll be fewer rabbits and we can have a bit of peace . |
| 6 | That of course means there 'll be fewer in the shops . |
| 7 | Regarding that point , when the right hon. Gentleman saw President Yeltsin did he explain to him why until very recently this Government have said that a minimum effective deterrent is 512 nuclear warheads and why they are now saying that an effective deterrent could be fewer than 192 nuclear warheads ? |
| 8 | As we get more efficient there may be fewer jobs , but they will be more interesting . ’ |
| 9 | The only benefit of the invasive strategy was revealed by exercise tolerance tests performed at 42 days and these suggest that there may be fewer patients with positive exercise tests in the invasive group . |
| 10 | Coelomic cells are derived from the extra-embryonic mesoderm , and thus there may be fewer problems with pseudomosaicism than are encountered with trophoblastic cell preparations . |
| 11 | There would be fewer people to cope with that way , and she was n't young any longer . |
| 12 | And if there were only two thousand living souls in Famagusta several days ago , there would be fewer now who were both soldiers and active . |
| 13 | Geoff Barnes of Casson Beckman believes that there would be fewer problems about audit fees if the audit was regarded as a more useful exercise both by members of the public and by business : ‘ As a profession we spend far too much time looking back and not enough time looking forward . ’ |
| 14 | He said the financial cutback meant there would be fewer concerts in a season . |
| 15 | It is not surprising , therefore , that most people assume that under private ownership services would be fewer , and charges would be higher . |
| 16 | There would be fewer committees , streamlined methods of decision-making , more delegation to officers and thus less delay . |
| 17 | If committees were to be as business-like in this as in other matters , they would resort to this method rather than to mountebank exhibitions , in which the bold and unscrupulous fare best , and the honest and modest worst and there would be fewer vain regrets and miserable depositions afterwards , than is unhappily the case at present . |
| 18 | There would be fewer business visitors and more casual droppings by from colleagues from other departments for a chat and a peek inside the plastic bags . |
| 19 | ‘ There will be fewer to bring it in next year , when the listed men have gone . ’ |
| 20 | In the next few years there will be fewer young people and these tend to make up the majority of staff in many outlets , so caterers — and particularly the large chains — will come to rely more on automation in the near future . ’ |
| 21 | In future , there will be fewer Exxon Valdezes , because big oil companies will make sure that they do not own any oil until it arrives safely in port . |
| 22 | There will be fewer big action pictures and more romantic comedies . |
| 23 | And even if that does not happen at once , it will in the coming years , when there will be fewer workers and new-property owners to pay taxes , and more elderly in need of welfare services . |
| 24 | In the future there will be fewer farmers and farms able to generate sufficient income to survive from farm production alone . |
| 25 | Bob Murray , the Sunderland chairman , has made a personal plea to Football Association chief executive Graham Kelly over suggestions that there will be fewer Roker supporters at the final than at Sunday 's semi-final victory over Norwich when more than 22,000 travelled from Wearside to Hillsborough . |
| 26 | As the size of barbel in a shoal becomes larger , so the number of fish in that shoal will be fewer . |
| 27 | ‘ Today , and in the future , there will be fewer women in the community in the potential carers age groups vis-à-vis those requiring care . |
| 28 | Looking ahead to the early twenty-first century , the smaller size of nuclear families in the late twentieth century makes it evident that there will be fewer relatives about to share family care although it is likely that many fewer people will be childless ( Rossiter and Wicks , 1982 , p. 66 ) . |
| 29 | He expresses the view that strikes will be fewer in number where collective bargaining is conducted at higher levels and more numerous where there is plant bargaining , largely because , in the latter case , since all workers within an industry or region need not be brought out , strikes can be called at much less cost to the membership as a whole . |
| 30 | One consequence of this control system will be fewer managers and more group/individual self-control . |