Sentences with phrase «counterparts are few in number»

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But because so much of our national income is concentrated in relatively few hands, large numbers of Americans are worse off economically than their counterparts in other advanced countries.

Their German counterparts, by contrast, scattered their work among many projects and tended to prize engineering virtue above practicality, yielding tanks like the Tiger that may have been individually superior in battle but were few in number and often «white elephants» that broke down in the field.

There are a number of reasons that this disparity exists, among these are that, on average, women earn lower salaries than their male counterparts and will spend fewer years in the workforce.

Few in number and virtually invisible when compared to their male counterparts, they exhibited less frequently, and they were generally excluded from the critical discourse of the day, for none was regarded as working on the «cutting edge.»