Example sentences of "they [vb base] fewer " in BNC.
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| 1 | They raise fewer than half the cubs born to them . |
| 2 | On the Northampton sites , they see themselves as exemplary green folk , since they make fewer demands on environmentally destructive goods and services than most of us . |
| 3 | However , accidents do happen to school-age children in the course of play , and consistent with the activities of this age group , they suffer fewer accidents in the home ( compared with pre-school age children ) but more accidents outdoors and in the school playground . |
| 4 | However , if babies suffer tissue damage for whatever reason , they show fewer behavioural disturbances and recover more quickly if they receive medicine which limits the effect of injury signals . |
| 5 | Librarians point out that for their part they receive fewer volumes for their money , since the prices of books over the same period have risen distinctly faster than retail prices as a whole . |
| 6 | However , some consumers , and these will be the poorer ones , will be worse off under the two-part tariff regime because they consume fewer than x units under average cost pricing , so charging a lump sum fee unc makes them pay a higher effective price for their units or forces them to consume fewer or even to drop out entirely . |
| 7 | They keep fewer beef cattle and many of these are stall-fed rather than grazing in the fields . |
| 8 | As such , they constitute fewer than one-third of those in these classes , but it is these classes that will provide more children than any other for university entry . |
| 9 | They initiate fewer interactions and fewer exchanges , ask fewer questions and make fewer requests . |
| 10 | They contain fewer households with cars , more mentally and physically disabled and more of those with limited educational qualifications . |
| 11 | They get cheaper insurance rates because their accident records are better ; they have fewer problems with their cars because they do n't thrash them ; and they probably expend far less nervous energy when they are driving , because they treat it like any other domestic activity . |
| 12 | There are now far more people surviving into old age and , since families are smaller , they have fewer children to care for them . |
| 13 | They 're cheaper and easier to learn because they have fewer features . |
| 14 | it is ‘ easier ’ for women to go sick because they have fewer social roles ; or |
| 15 | Properties are older and more likely to be terraced houses or flats ; they have fewer rooms but more people per room ; and they are less likely to have a garden . |
| 16 | But Conservative MPs are much less easy to classify , they have fewer dogmatic positions to maintain and their criticisms of their own party 's policies are therefore much less easy to dismiss in this way . |
| 17 | They have fewer opportunities than men to be nourished by their work , since they are more often involved in dull and repetitive jobs ; secondly , the domestic and nurturing skills in which they have usually been trained are held in lower esteem both in the home and in the workplace than administrative or management skills , so what they do is less likely to receive praise ; lastly , they are conditioned to value praise from men more highly than praise from women , who are more often their colleagues or first-level bosses . |
| 18 | Teachers in special schools are paid an additional allowance , but the small size of the schools and the move towards integrating children with special needs into ordinary schools mean that they have fewer prospects for promotion than teachers in mainstream schools . |
| 19 | Younger children , in contrast , appear more confident that a particular situation will provoke a particular emotion ; they have fewer doubts about the diagnosis of other people 's emotions and less insight into the voluntary control of emotion . |
| 20 | Mr Crandall has repeatedly blamed competitors operating in bankruptcy for keeping air fares low since they have fewer costs to recover . |
| 21 | Blacks are given places when they have fewer qualifications than white candidates . |
| 22 | Although studies of radiation workers in this country show , in fact , that they experience fewer cancer deaths than the general population . |
| 23 | They do not therefore say that they need fewer teachers . |
| 24 | Mm and , you see erm it is a fact that they need fewer hospital beds nowadays because |