Sentence examples for firms few from inspiring English sources

Although there were thousands of accounting firms, few companies of any size were willing to seek money from investors without a Big Five seal of approval.

Too many small firms, few economies of scale and a depressed global market in which all DRAM makers sometimes sell below cost: it is little wonder the Taiwanese are feeling vulnerable as the price slump continues.

However unlikely it is the company would have lost two million listeners had he defected, only a handful of bankers at best can realistically claim anything approaching such relevance -- and even at smaller firms, few if any can claim Mr. Stern's kind of impact on their employers' stock prices.

Its rivals are no longer tiny firms few have heard of, but the biggest infrastructure software companies.

They list 35 member firms, few of which have more than 200 employees.

At blind-obedience firms, fewer than one in five did.Tragicomically, the study found that bosses often believe their own guff, even if their underlings do not.

In New York, for example, where women represent more than 41percentt of the associates at law firms, fewer than 14percentt of the partners are women, according to the National Association of Law Placement.

Another problem for old line drug firms: fewer new medicines are being approved, with 20 new drugs approved by U.S. regulators in 2005 compared with 53 in 1996.

When shrimp is good (sweet, fresh, and firm), few crustaceans can rival it.

Had the Big Four become a Big Three, there would have been one firm fewer in an industry that is already highly concentrated.

So far, according to the Yankee Group, a research firm, fewer than three million American households have D.S.L., a fraction of the households with slower-speed Internet access.