Sentence examples for fewer duties from inspiring English sources

This is partially a reflection of the fact that local authorities now have fewer duties towards schools, with some funding having been "transferred" from local authorities to academies.

In addition, the building's super lives outside, is here only several hours a week and performs far fewer duties than our pre-co-op super performed.

But if new circumstances can lead to the recognition of new duties, why may they not lead to the recognition that there are fewer duties than we might otherwise have supposed?

The impending electrification of the Brighton Main Line, scheduled for 1932 also meant that fewer duties suitable for heavy passenger tank locomotives would be available in the 1930s.

Some respondents noted that having fewer duty hours can actually pose a threat to the quality of care by reducing opportunities to make important decisions and to gain medical and clinical knowledge.

They had lavish living quarters and generous salaries, and many had few duties beyond attending dinners and parties.

New position has few duties but will be seen as symbolic of William's growing role within the royal family.

As Prime Minister to a dictator, he had few duties, and had used his trips abroad to slip out and walk around in foreign cities.

There were a few duties split up among the three directors, but essentially they would make decisions together, and those decisions had to be arrived at by consensus.

Many fund managers, one suspects, will be horrified by the idea that they could be asked to do more work and accept a few duties and responsibilities.

Although at first Goethe had few duties beyond accompanying Charles Augustus and arranging court entertainments, he soon began to accumulate more prosaic responsibilities and was, initially at least, motivated by the idea of a reformed principality governed, in accordance with Enlightenment principles, for the benefit of all its subjects and not just of the landowning nobility.