Example sentences of "been few [noun] in " in BNC.

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1 Despite rapid advances in computer technology in the last three decades , there have been few changes in the methods by which communication with computers is achieved .
2 In parish churches , however , there was a long period of stagnation , although there were improvements in standards and taste , and until the time of Vatican II there had been few developments in the Liturgy and its music .
3 Despite these technological advances there have been few developments in the method of communicating with the computer , which remains keyboard-based .
4 There is , therefore , a strong case for funding of melanoma surveillance programmes or clinics aimed at facilitating early diagnosis for individuals with atypical naevi , especially given that , despite intensive research , there have been few advances in the management of melanoma that has spread beyond the primary site .
5 It is easy now to regard this wonder at an enemy 's humanity as naïve , but as it is the business of war to foster the naïveté on which it thrives , so there can have been few people in England during the isolation years of 1940–42 who did not take the impersonal nature of their enemy for granted .
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