Example sentences of "they have fewer " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | There are now far more people surviving into old age and , since families are smaller , they have fewer children to care for them . |
| 3 | They 're cheaper and easier to learn because they have fewer features . |
| 4 | it is ‘ easier ’ for women to go sick because they have fewer social roles ; or |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Mr Crandall has repeatedly blamed competitors operating in bankruptcy for keeping air fares low since they have fewer costs to recover . |
| 11 | Blacks are given places when they have fewer qualifications than white candidates . |