Example sentences of "fewer [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are hints ( no more ) in writings by Adorno 's colleague Max Horkheimer that ‘ out of the suffering … there can arise a new community … to replace the individualistic motive as the dominant bond in relationships ’ ( Horkheimer 1972 : 124 ) , and that , as the family fulfils fewer of the tasks of socialization , this new community would arise outside the family ( see Held 1980 : 134 ) . |
| 2 | First , far fewer of the snowball sample had used other opioids prior to heroin use ( 13 per cent against 23 per cent ) , and this was restricted in the main to older males ( modal age of 29 ) . |
| 3 | All these factors are increasing the complexity of the work of further education teachers of whom , at present , under half of the full-time staff , and even fewer of the part-timers , are trained in the sense that they have successfully completed a full programme of professional teacher training leading to qualified teacher status . |
| 4 | And forest , if it is left to recover , will in fact recover fairly well , probably with slightly fewer of the species that have been taken out , but the same sort of diversity of tree cover , and of fauna and flora , because in fact you 're taking very little out when you 're logging alone . |
| 5 | I hope that the Bill will change that so that there are fewer of the type of engineers described by my hon. Friend the Member for Harrow , West ( Mr. Hughes ) and more progressive traffic engineers . |
| 6 | The diesel also produces 90% less carbon monoxide , 60% fewer oxides of nitrogen and 90% fewer of the unburnt hydrocarbons which help to produce acid rain . |
| 7 | It is a measure of hypocrisy that , at the same time , the United States took fewer and fewer of the migrants . |
| 8 | It is a measure of hypocrisy that , at the same time , the United States took fewer and fewer of the migrants . |
| 9 | Certain it is , in stormy weather , from any point of the compass you will have a blow on Stormy Hill , and it does further seem as if it were tenanted by those who in the voyage of life have weathered storms quite as real , — long sickness , pinching poverty , and mayhap , in some cases , that very terrible malady when it becomes chronic , a disinclination to regular work ; and their present lot is one of storms , — few comforts and short allowance even of the needs of life within doors , and the wintry blasts without ; and failing health and increasing age give small prospect of much more of the sunshine or fewer of the blasts on this side of the dark River Jordan . |
| 10 | As they do so we tend to know fewer of the people we see in them . |
| 11 | In 1992 there were 1.3 million fewer employees than in 1973 , and although there were 950,000 more people self-employed and 325,000 people on various training schemes which kept them off the unemployment register , there were 77,000 fewer in the forces and 122,000 fewer people in work . |
| 12 | There was a statistically significant difference in ulcer site between the sexes ( p<0.05 ) : men had proportionately fewer in the gaiter area , but double the proportion on the foot ( Table 2 ) . |
| 13 | That of course means there 'll be fewer in the shops . |
| 14 | From the time of the marriage he cut himself off entirely from his brother , but it was n't only from Matthew : he became more and more of a recluse until now he hardly sees anyone but the people he meets in the course of his business — and they 're getting fewer by the month . |