There is a significant trend toward consolidating systems management features into fewer tools. Customers want to minimize the number of agents that perform overlapping functions.
There are fewer than a dozen management employees at the facility since production ended last week. (These remaining employees are helping) with remaining work involved in the closure of the facility.
There are fewer service providers and they are bigger and more powerful. It stands to reason that they want to buy from larger diversified companies. They'd rather not have to train technicians on products from five or six different vendors.
There are fewer seats out there today. There were too many seats in 2004 and 2005.
There are fewer quality private companies that haven't gone public yet. As we get into fourth quarter, the number of well-developed private companies will be few and far between.
There are fewer parades, but not greatly fewer.
There are fewer opportunities for VC-backed companies to go public on Nasdaq than six, seven years ago. AIM is very small-company friendly and a lot easier to go public on. It also gives access to a whole new set of investors.
In one sense, the stories I read betrayed me. Too few gave me back my mirror image. Fewer still spoke to, or acknowledged, the existence of the problems I faced as a black foster child from a dysfunctional and badly broken home.
I think speculative fiction has fewer unspoken prerequisites than literary fiction for writers of color.
When you stop compressions, blood flow stops. You have to make up for that lost ground. We think that the fewer the interruptions, the better for blood flow.