Example sentences of "the fewer " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fewer people there are to argue about which channel to watch , the better , I should think . ’ |
| 2 | The lower the choice of field is made , the fewer fields are within reach and the less time there is to decide which one is best . |
| 3 | Good tactics , whether planned or not — the more gentry were pinned down here , the fewer were left to muster the Volunteers or ride off with news to the Deputies at Blairgowrie . |
| 4 | In eleven miles Cameron and Menzies had passed three houses — all the fewer people to betray the refugees , they told each other . |
| 5 | The fewer also to provide food . |
| 6 | It should be an axiom , he thought , that the fewer the rules the better . |
| 7 | The higher the performance , the greater the cost , and the fewer the weapons the Services can buy ; and the shorter the production runs , the larger the overheads and the higher the price , leading to ever smaller orders . |
| 8 | ‘ The fewer men on deck , the better . |
| 9 | ‘ Well fashion is still faring better than advertising in the current page squeeze , but there are now less editorial pages to correspond with the fewer advertising pages being sold in magazines ’ . |
| 10 | These are also ‘ baddies ’ as they make the blood more liable to clot , so the fewer of them you have in your blood the better for your heart . |
| 11 | The more you can develop these faculties , the fewer will be your blunders and the better your economy . |
| 12 | Obviously , the fewer carp competing for the available food the better the chance of reaching a worthwhile size . |
| 13 | But the cells usually died when they underwent the reduction division ( meiosis ) necessary to produce gametes with half the parental chromosomes , so that the older the fetus the fewer the germ cells found . |
| 14 | The further away the other conductor is the fewer electrons will get through , so enabling scientists to map the surface of the first solid . |
| 15 | The fewer foods the mother ate from this list , the less severe was the colic . |
| 16 | The greater the openness of the boundary , the greater the potential capacity to negotiate across it ; the greater the number of open boundaries , the greater the potential power available to the social actors to promote a dialectical relation with the outside world , to actively influence the processes , policies and events that touch their lives Conversely , the fewer open boundaries there are perceived to be and the more closed , the more powerlessness and passivity is likely to be manifest in relation to the outside world . |
| 17 | The more we use phrases such as ‘ I have a problem I think you can help me with ’ , the fewer problems we will have in the bedroom . |
| 18 | Of course , the fewer calories the body uses from food the more it must draw from your surplus body fat , so this adds up to faster weight loss . |
| 19 | She knew she could rely on his discretion for , although she was not ashamed of her background , she considered that the fewer people who knew of it , the better . |
| 20 | The higher the output the fewer dynamics become available in practice . |
| 21 | Since in practice power concentrates , greater the fewer the contenders , the last of these solutions has strong attractions as a more generally attainable second-best . |
| 22 | In so far as it was possible to control the number of children they had , a significant number of Victorian parents were beginning to do so — if only because of the simple fact that the fewer sons and daughters there were , the more could be done to give each of them a good start in life . |
| 23 | The fewer Western states wished to receive the Conducator , the more he had to fill his diary with visits to other self-proclaimed National Heroes and Liberators of the People . |
| 24 | Of course , the more that old buildings were demolished along the east-west line , the fewer people were left to make use of it . |
| 25 | It is usual to use boards large enough to reach from the floor to the ceiling as the fewer joints you have the smoother the wall finish will be . |
| 26 | Awkwardly , not liking the thought of too many people knowing about Stone 's whereabouts , Doyle said , ‘ The fewer the better , sir . |
| 27 | Again it is fine to add such a trim but the fewer you put on the more attractive they look . |
| 28 | The fewer people he had to cope with , the better . |
| 29 | The simpler the system the fewer the risks . |
| 30 | The more powerful the assembly , committee or board whether in industry , commerce or national and international political institutions , the fewer women are to be found there . |