No fewer than 50 passengers were killed.

No fewer than five hundred students were present.

Every single year fewer electricians, fewer carpenters, fewer plumbers, fewer welders, fewer pipefitters, fewer steamfitters.

The lower requirements were mainly attributable to lower freight expenditure for the shipment of equipment from United Nations Logistics Base to the Mission, since fewer items than expected were available in the strategic deployment stock.

In general, countries reported fewer orders being received online than placed.

As far as can be ascertained, 11 of the 43 countries that remained retentionist throughout 1999 2003 executed fewer than 5 persons over the whole period and 16 countries fewer than 10.

There are fewer than a handful of palu left on this island.

However, fewer than 40 days remained before the end of the year.

In 2004, the Investigation Unit registered fewer complaints than in previous years.

Sooner than you expected, huh?

According to customary mores, women have fewer privileges than before the Family Law.

And I never had fewer than two thirds of an audience hold up their hand.

Do organic potatoes actually have fewer toxic chemicals used to produce them than conventional potatoes?

I joined CompuServe when it had fewer numbers than I currently have followers on Twitter.

Statistical data prove that in Aruba girls do not enjoy fewer educational opportunities than boys.

He offered more than could be expected.

The breaks got fewer and fewer.

(e) Deployment of fewer than projected vehicles resulting in lower costs for petrol, oil and lubricants

It's taking a little longer than I expected.

The US introduced the smallest dose of austerity, and it has enjoyed the best economic performance. But even in the US, there are roughly 650,000 fewer public sector employees than there were before the crisis normally, we would have expected some two million more.

Because before 1980, there were much fewer people born than there were during the last 30 years.

Ireland's Equality Act had fewer exclusions in the 2004 revision than it had had in earlier legislation.

The assignment took me longer than I had expected.

The math homework was easier than I had expected.

Instead, after successive revisions, world GDP in 2012 is now expected to grow by only 3.3 while inflation is forecast to reach 4 , signaling much weaker global economic momentum than was anticipated. Lower than expected growth and higher than expected inflation have affected most economies.

And fewer older people answered affirmatively to that question than middle aged people, and younger people as well.

Above the age of 45 fewer than 50 women have a university degree for every 100 male graduates.

Some things, as you can see, went longer than expected.

The expected five year survival is less than five percent.

That one was way more difficult than I had expected.

The dolphin and trainer communicated much better than we expected.

The actual arrangements varied and might include fewer hours per day, fewer days per week, or fewer months per year.

No priority country should have fewer than two professional WASH staff members, and most such countries will require more.

The variance of 521,600 under this heading is attributable to the rental of fewer than planned speedboats and pushers.

What a society knows how to do is known mainly in its firms, not in its schools. At most modern firms, fewer than 15 of the positions are open for entry level workers, meaning that employers demand something that the education system cannot and is not expected to provide.

So, we have fewer conflicts today in which fewer people get killed.

Only Aston Villa, tailed off at the bottom, scored fewer goals and it is worth recalling that at Christmas Albion were averaging fewer than a shot on target per 90 minutes, by some stretch the division's worst.

Currently, there were fewer officers than in 1987 owing to attrition over the years of zero growth and budget reductions.

Measles mortality in Africa had been reduced from an estimated 482,000 cases in 1999 to fewer than 240,000 in 2004.

If instead you reward doctors for doing fewer procedures, they will do fewer.

The number of individual complaints received has more than tripled in the past five years, from fewer than 1,000 complaints in 1997 to more than 3,500 in 2001 and over 5,000 in 2004.

The number of individual complaints received has more than tripled in the past five years (from fewer than 1,000 complaints in 1997 to more than 3,500 in 2001 and over 5,000 in 2004).

Two treaties have no complaint procedures, and far fewer States have acceded to existing complaint procedures than to the treaties themselves.

Thematic funds have fewer restrictions than most other resources, allowing for longer term planning while reducing transaction costs and recovery rates.

More meaningful analysis would be obtained by having more reliable data for fewer countries, rather than imputing data using dubious methods.