Sentence examples for they were fewer from inspiring English sources
"They were fewer, but they had the elevated positions," he said.
He noted that there were also cases in which Palestinians damaged Israeli-owned trees, but that they were fewer.
Inevitably, there were lonely and homesick moments - eating alone on New Year's Eve was a bad one - but they were fewer than expected.
As the bricking up of the windows proceeded, the attempts to escape by jumping continued, though they were fewer and some ended in death.
Smartphone sales volumes have doubled in just two years, from just under 500m in 2011; in 2010, they were fewer than 300m.
But even if they were fewer in number, less widespread, and less tolerated by American society, virulent anti-Semitic acts still occasionally occurred.
If they were, few could afford to buy them.
But novels are not works of social history: if they were, few people would read them.
But they were few compared with the cold logic of New Zealand's eventual, and comfortable, victory.
Still, they were few and far between.
