The phrase "a consequence of fewer" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the results or effects that arise from a reduction in quantity or number of something.
Example: "The decline in sales was a consequence of fewer customers visiting the store."
Alternatives: "result of a decrease in" or "outcome of reduced".
These results suggest that reduced EJC amplitudes are a consequence of fewer synapses in neurexin mutants.
Presumably the age effect may be a consequence of fewer episodes and lower immunity.
Instead, such HIV reporting may suffer from a sample bias as a consequence of fewer young attendees at STD/AIDS service sites.
Wing blade area decrease in dumpy ov1 mutant wings is not a consequence of fewer cell divisions cells actually divide more than in WT.
Generally poorer performance might be a consequence of fewer neurons tuned to slow speeds than fast speeds, as found in the primate brain (Hadad et al., 2011; Liu and Newsome, 2003).
Numbers of dead shoots remained low and did not change with time or depth (Fig. 2B); the depth effects were a consequence of fewer new shoots being produced rather than greater senescence.
There were no substantial differences between the help seeking behaviour of male and female inmates in this study, but the result was uncertain probably as a consequence of few female inmates.
However, both total diabetes-related and total healthcare costs were similar in the two groups, as a consequence of the fewer hospitalisations, fewer total endocrinologist visits and lower inpatient costs associated with the use of insulin glargine, compared with NPH insulin.
One may ask whether the improved coefficient of correlation is merely a consequence of the fewer predictions made by the DWMs.
However, increased standard deviations were observed in some cases (e.g., for the probabilities of acquiring enlarged BS cells, or decreased vein spacing) likely a consequence of using fewer data.
Importantly, however, the QFT-GIT testing strategy was associated with overall increases in QALYs despite the small increase in active TB cases, a consequence of substantially fewer individuals being prescribed LTBI treatment and less related adverse events.
