Sentence examples for fewer rather from inspiring English sources

The odd thing was that, as the century wore on and the Sabbath became a little less holy, Sunday trains grew fewer, rather than more.

On the issue of racial integration, for instance, Tygiel writes, the end of segregation meant that "fewer, rather than more, African-Americans would earn their living from baseball in the latter half of the 20th century.

More training is needed at a time when police are facing budget cuts; we need more leadership too from the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) which, unhelpfully, has talked about fewer rather than more social media prosecutions," added Mughal.

There was a successful campaign a few years ago to persuade Tesco to say "five items or fewer" rather than "less", which gives me hope that my own campaign to persuade the biggest supermarket in the UK to put an apostrophe in "Mens" and "Womens" may yet prove effective.

People who favor gun rights are also about twice as likely as gun control supporters to have contacted a public official about gun policy (15 percent vs. 8 percent)." This is where gun control advocates — those who believe that a society can be safer and more civil with fewer rather than more high-powered, high-capacity killing machines — must have their mettle tested.

Thus, she argues for producing fewer rather than more Ph.D.s, for requiring all PIs to report the career experience of their Ph.D.s and postdocs as part of "the outcome data for scoring proposals," and for limiting the "amount of faculty time that can be charged to grants, thereby dulling the incentives for universities to hire faculty on soft money".

But it does raise a few rather uncomfortable questions.

Standing up for the old order: the few rather than the many.

The swap meet included a few rather chilling reminders of Germany's Nazi past.

In political terms, he has a solid conservative record, though with a few rather human wrinkles.

Theirs is a translation for the few, rather than the many.