Sentence examples for fewer acceptable from inspiring English sources

Many landlords are reluctant to accept tenants with Section 8 vouchers, which has left fewer acceptable apartments on the market.

There are optimal matching methods that will break matches if doing so can result in a better overall matched sample, and it has been shown that there are circumstances in which greedy matching will find fewer acceptable matches than optimal matching (17).

And if a girl did excel academically, medicine was one of the few acceptable paths.

In my line of work, there are few acceptable excuses for missing a gig.

The wine list of recent-vintage Italians has an overly pricy high end, but there are a few acceptable inexpensive reds.

It's one of the few acceptable prejudices left in 21st-century Britain, the butt of many a comedian's joke.

Mr. Bieber is in the difficult position of having a tremendous amount of capital to spend and only a few acceptable ways to spend it.

WHAT does the writer mean when he says that Mr. Bieber has "a tremendous amount of capital to spend and only a few acceptable ways to spend it"?

It owes more to the fact that men have relatively few acceptable ways to accessorize without crossing into out-and-out jewelry.

The city listed a few acceptable grounds for granting a permit having a job that involved carrying large amounts of cash, for example—but it also stated, "Simply fearing for one's personal safety alone is not considered good cause".

The report suggested several motives including coughing as "one of few acceptable ways of active participation within strict concert etiquette" adding it could be to "test unwritten boundaries of courtesy, to comment on the performance or simply document one's presence".