Example sentences of "[vb mod] have fewer " in BNC.
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| 1 | Others complained that the whole campaign was misguided , arguing that people should have fewer partners rather than safer sex . |
| 2 | Topically active corticosteroids , with reduced systemic bioavailability , should have fewer side effects , and there is evidence that enema preparations of corticosteroid drugs with metabolism in gut wall or liver are effective in distal colitis . |
| 3 | 1 ) It should have fewer problems with extraneous words than island-driving strategies since it ‘ prefers ’ to work left to right . |
| 4 | Explaining this they went on to say that perhaps if they did not have to put up with Keith 's trying behaviour every day until evening they might have fewer rows . |
| 5 | The latter agents may not cause abnormalities of either carbohydrate or lipid metabolism ( Donnelly & Harrower , 1980 ; Faergeman et al , 1984 ; Rodjmark & Andersson , 1984 ) , despite several case reports ( Charles et al , 1981 ; Bhatnagar et al , 1984 ) , and they may have fewer side-effects than cardioselective β-blocking drugs . |
| 6 | In current perceptions , routes of certain styles — provided they are protected — may seem to be the soft touches , whereas more old-fashioned struggles which climbers once took regularly — if exhaustingly — in their stride , may have fewer takers today . |
| 7 | New owners may have fewer qualms than long-serving managers about taking action of this kind which is likely to be damaging to the company 's employees and the wider host community . |
| 8 | However , there is evidence to suggest that women may have fewer problems in adjusting to retirement than men . |
| 9 | Alternatively , we may have fewer and poorer sources as the vast amounts of electronic information are not accessible because hardware has become obsolete , software and data have not been migrated forward , and the media have degraded . |
| 10 | Each year , UK citizens would have fewer common experiences and references . |
| 11 | Just one of the regions , Northern Ireland , with eight constituency members and an assumed equal number of list members , would have fewer than the minimum total of 20 required to ensure fair representation therein for a party securing 5% of the list votes . |
| 12 | We would have fewer books on Queen Cleopatra and on King Arthur , but even more books on Tutankhamen and on Alexander the Great . |
| 13 | Some protein foods will have lots of one type of brick , and other kinds of protein foods will have fewer of these and more of other types . |
| 14 | The number of boundaries of competence that exist for any given social entity may vary : the members of an isolated New Guinea society , all of whom perform virtually identical tasks according to age and sex , will have fewer than the members of a more complex society with a greater division of labour . |
| 15 | In that case you will have fewer rather than more difficulties with which to cope . |
| 16 | ‘ If present trends continue we will have fewer people at work making things than out of work making nothing , ’ he declared . |
| 17 | ‘ If present trends continue , ’ Labour Party spokesman Robin Cook said , ‘ we will have fewer people at work making things than we will have really out of work and making nothing . ’ |
| 18 | The typical large business 20 years hence will have fewer than half the levels of management of its counterpart today , and no more than a third the managers . |
| 19 | When their cheques are cleared our bank will have fewer securities but more operational balances to its credit and its position will have improved . |
| 20 | Customers of other banks will have more securities , fewer bank deposits and their banks will have fewer operational balances . |
| 21 | Even television programmes will have fewer scene changes , and already many of them deal with retirement in a humorous way — ‘ Waiting for God ’ and ‘ One Foot in the Grave ’ for example . |
| 22 | The other schools will have fewer pupils from social classes 1 and 2 . |
| 23 | The schools will have fewer resources and a narrower range of subject options and , as a result , their relative failure will be reinforced . |
| 24 | My Lords , it 's a question of cost in the long run , but er the reason that the our British Library will have fewer than the French Library is originally it was planned to have three thousand places , but er further er examination which has really been taken undertaken very , very thoroughly has proved that this is really not necessary . |