Example sentences of "no fewer " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wore a blazer , not unlike the one Lord Woodleigh wore except that instead of discreet brass buttons it was decorated by no fewer than five enormous , tinselly affairs . |
| 2 | His songs have an even greater preoccupation with it , no fewer than 52 references to date , in fact . |
| 3 | Hours before Mr Voronin spoke , Nikolai Ryzhkov , the Prime Minister , presented no fewer than five ambitious draft bills on property , a single taxation system , companies , land ownership and leaseholding . |
| 4 | As India 's leading political parties shift into gear for the forthcoming general election campaign , no fewer than three of the ex-Maharajah 's once-royal relatives are jostling for the right to contest the Bharatpur seat . |
| 5 | No fewer than 20 legislative acts will be required , says Mr Otsason . |
| 6 | At the invitation of the Soviet government , and accompanied by no fewer than 25 Swedish journalists , members of Raul Wallenberg 's family and the society which bears his name will meet , during their week-long visit to Moscow , representatives of the KGB and the Foreign Ministry , who have promised to submit to them all available material . |
| 7 | Yet these same squads each had no fewer than 10 northern players attached to more southerly clubs . |
| 8 | In this rural area there had been no fewer than nineteen peasant uprisings in 1919 . |
| 9 | The Commissariat for War still hung on to 752 coaches ; the Commissariat for Health had no fewer than 2,718 , and was even demanding a further 1,200 . |
| 10 | No fewer than twenty lucky readers have won our third prize of a Recta D0310 compass and a 905 Liquipak . |
| 11 | His original appeal in Air Mail reached no fewer than 40 of the 250 survivors of that grim episode in Far East war history . |
| 12 | too , found themselves split after their unexpected defeat in 1929 , and Baldwin 's leadership came under severe attack from no fewer than four different directions . |
| 13 | Consequently the car you see in the photograph is powered by one of the neatest engines around — a five -valve per cylinder V12 with no fewer than four turbochargers to make up for its relatively small , 3.5-litre capacity . |
| 14 | As the helicopter came down to land , to their dismay they saw that the organizers had not only laid on about fifteen different activities for the Prince to inspect , including mountain-bike scrambling ; but children from no fewer than five primary schools were gathered together in great banks to greet him . |
| 15 | Pearson made no fewer than eight quota films in one year at Julius Hagen 's Twickenham Studios , where one small stage was occupied around the clock , and pictures that had been scripted in a fortnight were filmed in another two weeks . |
| 16 | No fewer than 12 lucky readers , representing six different regions including Northern Ireland , will be invited to London to have their hair dramatically transformed . |
| 17 | No fewer than 23,000 copies of a glossy PSA calendar have been given to the troops . |
| 18 | Hungary has been effusive in its help to the Romanians — in the first four days after the revolution no fewer than 550 trucks of aid were sent to Romania . |
| 19 | When Ronald Reagan took office , no fewer than 20 of the research fellows at the neo-conservative American Enterprise Institute ( AEI ) joined his administration . |
| 20 | A few months earlier , West Indies had encountered any number of problems in Australia and had lost the series 5–1 ; they had then beaten India 2–1 at home , the last match being won when no fewer than five Indians were unable to bat in the second innings . |
| 21 | Willey held things together for a while and the total reached 252 , helped by no fewer than 52 extras since the ball was moving around so much that Murray had a very hard time behind the stumps . |
| 22 | No fewer than 19 of those 35 were taken without assistance from his team-mates , and on average he took a wicket every 35 balls . |
| 23 | No fewer than 364 economists signed a statement calling for a change of policy and traditional reflation . |
| 24 | The Chairman , for example , was one of no fewer than five Irish Americans to have held the top job in UM . |
| 25 | Recently , Susan Keefe has listed no fewer than sixty-one treatises on baptism which have come down to us in manuscripts from the Carolingian age . |
| 26 | Between January 1940 and June 1941 he broadcast no fewer than nine major speeches , demonstrating his unshakeable confidence , strengthening morale , and giving further hope for an early end to the war . |
| 27 | The film ran in every major city of Germany in late 1940 and early 1941 , and simultaneously in no fewer than sixty-six Berlin cinemas . |
| 28 | Hitler reminded his audience of his grim ‘ prophecy ’ for the first time in his Reichstag speech on 30 January 1941 , and in 1942 returned to it in no fewer than four major addresses , on 30 January , 24 February , 30 September , and 8 November , as well as hinting at the destruction of the Jews in the war in his ‘ New Year Appeal ’ . |
| 29 | It is little compensation to know that no fewer than six earned themselves the VC ; myth has it that they were all won before breakfast . |
| 30 | BAD : The only serious wobble of the campaign followed the appearance of Simon Hughes , the party 's environment spokesman , on BBC television 's Election Call programme when he appeared to contradict or amend party policy no fewer than four times in less than an hour . |