Example sentences of "[adj] fewer than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before the Minister gives us , once again , the sterile old argument about the number of empty council properties , I point out that the number of empty council properties is far fewer than the number of empty properties owned by the Government . |
| 2 | In the dressage she lost only 25 points , 13 fewer than the runner-up . |
| 3 | Fullback and captain Mark Wyatt , who 29 caps in 10 years is just two fewer than the Canadian record set by lock Ro Hindson between 1973 and 1990 , was not the only one to retire after the World Cup . |
| 4 | The most dynamic Green party in Europe is undoubtedly Die Grünen , which took 8.3 per cent of the vote in the 1987 West German federal elections and won 42 seats , only four fewer than the ruling Christian Democrats ' coalition partners , the Free Democrats . |
| 5 | Despite its recent problems , the LDP won 46 per cent of the vote and took 275 of the 512 seats , only 20 fewer than the party had controlled in the outgoing Diet . |