Example sentences of "been fewer " in BNC.
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| 1 | Doubtless some protestant paramilitaries — though there have been fewer religious persons among them than in the case of the provisionals — hold to similar religious understandings of the necessity of violence under certain circumstances . |
| 2 | For this reason , mistakes in the LBO boom have caused more fuss than mistakes in the merger boom of the 1960s , even though — so far at least — there have been fewer of them . |
| 3 | But for most of the campaign , the 12th since the Republic began in 1945 , there have been fewer fireworks and more sober reflection . |
| 4 | Such is the demand for the Rt Hon John Smith , QC , on the national stage that visits to his constituency during the campaign have been fewer than he would have liked . |
| 5 | In the 1990s there were many more at hand to help them escape , people who might have been more profitably employed than in these negative exercises if there had been fewer who needed their services . |
| 6 | ‘ There have also been fewer for sales or receiverships when compared to many other business sectors . |
| 7 | The waning of enthusiasm for higher education had begun several years before , but this was the first time there had been fewer applicants than places offered . |
| 8 | Consequently there have been fewer serious efforts towards obtaining effective solutions . |
| 9 | The invasion threats , which had seemed so immediate in 1948–49 , had subsided and there had been fewer incidents on the parallel . |
| 10 | They sat on the soft sand above the tide line while Adam ate ; there had always been fewer stones here , on this remote end of the beach where hardly anyone came . |
| 11 | For this reason there have been fewer and fewer joint engagements in recent years . |
| 12 | There has been fewer people than expected attending conferences , and fewer take-ups for free advice . |
| 13 | For a start , as there were not nearly as many competitors , there would have been fewer qualifying runs . |
| 14 | His crooked smile was very much in evidence and Matey could have told her that since her arrival Dr Neil had been happier than she had seen him for a long time — there had been fewer backslidings towards the ‘ nasty whisky ’ since McAllister had appeared in his life to provide him with such rich amusement . |
| 15 | Catering to the needs of the poor would hardly have doubled the number of London architects in twenty years ( from just over 1,000 to 2,000 — in the 1830s there had probably been fewer than one hundred ) , though building and renting slum property could be a very lucrative business , judged by the income per cubic foot of low-cost space . |
| 16 | The line operates every Tuesday and gets dozens of calls , because , despite the fact that there have been fewer home repossessions over the last few months , the National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux say that more people are getting themselves into debt . |
| 17 | The sense of satisfaction was bigger than a prop 's ribcage ; the problems had been fewer than a hooker 's braincells . |
| 18 | erm In that sense , whereas of course in the case of primary schools there 've been fewer resources but of course far fewer students . |