Example sentences of "fewer than the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course any single checkerboard solution of an important issue will produce more instances of injustice than one of the alternatives and fewer than the other . |
| 2 | Her Cloaths are fewer than the Time before . |
| 3 | In the dressage she lost only 25 points , 13 fewer than the runner-up . |
| 4 | Not surprisingly , the landlord 's covenants are rather fewer than the tenant 's and if one was of a mind , and really thought that it was worth the effort , it is possible to invent several pages of landlord 's covenants which the tenant would dearly like to have included , but this would definitely not be worthwhile . |
| 5 | The fourteen Area Boards themselves had to devolve some functions further and they initially set up about 500 local districts ( slightly fewer than the number of pre-nationalisation undertakings ) . |
| 6 | This was fewer than the number of people looking at a daily newspaper . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |