The actual arrangements varied and might include fewer hours per day, fewer days per week, or fewer months per year.

Not only does a higher percentage of American adults work, but they also work more hours per week and more weeks per year. In 2004, the French worked 28 fewer hours per person than Americans, and the Germans and Dutch each put in 25 fewer hours, and the money they earned was correspondingly lower almost 30 less income per person than Americans received.

Every single year fewer electricians, fewer carpenters, fewer plumbers, fewer welders, fewer pipefitters, fewer steamfitters.

The breaks got fewer and fewer.

We could perhaps all be happy working fewer hours if the decline reflected gradual social progress. But we are not happy with unemployment that results from a sudden fiscal crisis.

First, for some individuals, working fewer hours reduces incomes enough to entitle them to a larger government subsidy for health insurance. Second, some employers are being incented to reduce the number of working hours for individual employees, because, above a specified number, Obamacare imposes a larger burden on them.

So, we have fewer conflicts today in which fewer people get killed.

If instead you reward doctors for doing fewer procedures, they will do fewer.

The variance of 8,084,300 under this heading is attributable primarily to utilization of fewer flight hours than budgeted by the Operation's helicopter fleet (3,053 hours compared to 8,060 budgeted) owing to the non deployment of the military aviation unit comprising eight helicopters, which also contributed to reduced consumption of aviation fuel during the reporting period.

And this is because in small groups there are fewer ideas, there are fewer innovations.

As we have more and more old people, like me, and fewer and fewer babies.

With fewer staff available, overtime usage has increased however, longer working hours have taken a toll on the morale, health and motivation of the staff, and there has been an increase in sick and emergency leave taken.

For many older workers, the choice is not whether to work, but how much. We now have less than full employment in the sense that the payroll tax encourages older workers to work fewer hours than they otherwise would.

She waited for hours and hours.

The immediately have fewer children.

Educated women have fewer children

Income levels are higher on average in the US, but mainly because the Nordic countries work fewer hours per week. In any case, all of the Nordic countries have very high incomes, and Norway s per capita income actually exceeds the US.

Manufacturing productivity per hour in Europe compares quite well with the US, but Europeans work significantly fewer hours per year, which explains the annual per capita difference. But European countries lag badly in services, where restrictive practices, protectionism, and inefficiency hold them back.

But in a small colony, it's likely to meet fewer foragers, just because there are fewer other foragers there to meet.

We hate this mortar, to stand hours and hours.

NEW DELHI India s 15th Lok Sabha (the lower house of Parliament) passed into history ignominiously this month, following the least productive five years of any Indian parliament in six decades of functioning democracy. With entire sessions lost to opposition disruptions, and with frequent adjournments depriving legislators of time for deliberation, the MPs elected in May 2009 passed fewer bills and spent fewer hours in debate than any of their predecessors.

No fewer than 50 passengers were killed.

Instead of fewer accidents there are more.

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In the first half of this year, there have been 5.4 per cent fewer fatal accidents, 16.8 per cent fewer accidents caused by drunk driving and 4.7 per cent fewer accidents caused by pedestrians compared with the same period in 2004.

Country 2, that has fewer telephones, is China.

So we have fewer parts with essential oil.

No fewer than five hundred students were present.

And when I started in with the eight hours and the 10 hours and the 12 hours and the 14 hours and the 15 hours and the 24 hour swims, I knew I had it, because I was making it through these.

I work 10 hours a day I commute two hours a day.

Mentoring me. He'd come up and spend hours and hours with me.

Business hours

Family nurse's individual counselling hours should be at least 10 hours every week.

Maybe there's fewer accidents, so there's public health benefits.

But experience shows that the decision to retire or to work fewer hours is influenced by the compensation that members of this group receive. And this amount partly reflects the fact that employed people who collect Social Security and Medicare are subject to the payroll tax that finances them.

Within 24 hours, they had his name, and within 48 hours, he was arrested.

Diplomacy s Darkest Hours

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