Sentence examples for few dependent from inspiring English sources

Radio blackouts are consequential primarily only to a relatively few dependent concerns and effects are short-lived (a few days or less).

New France, though a proprietary colony, was governed by the company, which appointed governors for Canada and Acadia, and a few dependent officers.

Usually this group forms the patrilineally extended family consisting of brothers with their own nuclear families and perhaps a few dependent elders.

Now there are dozens and they show that as countries move from large families and poverty into wealth and ageing they pass through a Goldilocks period: a generation or two in which fertility is neither too high nor too low and in which there are few dependent children, few dependent grandparents and a bulge of adults in the middle who, if conditions are right, make the factories hum.

[p512] Thus, merely by purporting to compute standards of need and granting some benefits to all eligible families, the State would comply with the federal law -- in spite of the fact that the needs of no or very few dependent children would thereby be taken into account in the actual assistance granted.

Frontal chest radiograph (a) demonstrates hyperlucency through the right chest (thin arrows) with few dependent fluid levels; this was interpreted as a hydro pneumothorax.

For several decades the bulk of their population will be of working age, with relatively few dependents, old or young.

The emerging countries of Asia benefit from the "demographic bonus" — a young population with few dependents to support — and they have managed to create the right conditions to take advantage of it by developing good education systems, attractive business environments and investing in research and development.

After all, a lower birth rate means there are fewer dependent children.

With seven million fewer "dependent" exemptions, tax collections were $2.8 billion more than anticipated, and piles of ex-claimants' returns are under criminal investigation.

Because there are fewer dependent children and old people, households have more money left for savings, which can be ploughed into investment.