Example sentences of "been less [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact erm , there 's been less funding per head in Wiltshire , than many other authorities in the country . |
| 2 | This had the advantage that ‘ lower ’ races could be dismissed as earlier steps in the advance that had survived into the present in parts of the world where there had been less stimulus for mental development . |
| 3 | I would have been been less chance of me doing that if I felt depressed . |
| 4 | If there had been less enthusiasm among the congregation for ufology , maybe they would have devised a public punishment for me . |
| 5 | There has been less enthusiasm for options in the Far East where the Singapore International Monetary Exchange ( SIMEX ) introduced options on its CME-linked contracts in 1987 . |
| 6 | She had worn a full-length coat because it was all she had that was decently subfusc ; now she wished that she had been less conformist . |
| 7 | However , I now see that there could have been less concurrence between them on this matter than I had supposed , and so I was a disappointment to both of them . |
| 8 | If developments of this kind were not in some sense in progress , then there would have been less likelihood of the scribe observing precisely this pattern of orderly spelling variation , because , given the variable state of the orthographic conventions known to him , he could have chosen to vary in other ways . |
| 9 | Similarly , Byers 's ( 1987 ) work in the Mount Everest National Park indicates that there has been less forest removal than envisaged and that shrubs/grassland and forested slopes below 4000 m OD are stable . |
| 10 | They could not have been less trouble , leaving the house at ten in the morning and not returning until nine in the evening , having already dined . |
| 11 | There has been less debate on those here , and I guess that over the two days of the debate there will still be less . |
| 12 | Studies by Dan Lortie ( 1975 ) , in the United States , and Colin Lacey ( 1977 ) , in the UK , have been less determinist than most . |
| 13 | In contrast , there has been less decline — and some growth — in certain areas outside the major cities . |