Example sentences of "[verb] [art] fewer " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was told of one particular youngster in Stockton-on-Tees who has been arrested and charged no fewer than 17 times this year . |
| 2 | There were plenty of bike shops ( I visited no fewer than six ) , but not many cyclists around . |
| 3 | The rail journey to Swindon involved no fewer than three changes , at Southampton , Basingstoke and Reading . |
| 4 | The whale catches also increased until a peak in 1965 when the Japanese caught no fewer than 26 986 whales . |
| 5 | He has won no fewer than 50 European titles and 17 others around the world . |
| 6 | ‘ Over the past four years , Radio Ulster and its sister station in the North-West , Radio Foyle , have won no fewer than nine Sony awards , ’ he added . |
| 7 | The CPR created no fewer than 600 new communities with villages , towns , and farming settlements growing out from the railway stations . |
| 8 | Is my hon. Friend aware that while Derbyshire county council 's policies have led to the redundancies of hundreds of teachers recently , and while Derbyshire is the only county in England to have fewer policemen than 10 years ago , none the less the county council 's job creation priorities have managed to find no fewer than three posts at £40,000 per annum for former Labour councillors and Members of Parliament , the council leader has fitted himself up with a job at an annual equivalent salary of £40,000 , the leader of the Derbyshire Labour party — one David Skinner — has been given a job as a minder to Japanese business men despite being kicked out of the council for corruption 15 years ago , and his wife has been given a job at £23,000 per annum in the council 's bloated publicity department ? |
| 9 | This contains no fewer than 1000 ‘ operational targets ’ concerning the ways that government should influence industry . |
| 10 | The ‘ Child 's Companion ’ of 1829 , a well-illustrated little volume of stories and poems , contains no fewer than thirteen improving deathbed scenes , together with one discourse on death and two poems inspired by gazing on children 's graves . |
| 11 | In America The Hymnal 1980 contains no fewer than 288 examples of service music and it is permissible to reproduce some of it for congregational use . |
| 12 | The use of the term in Editor 's Choice includes case reports , such as the two lessons of the week , one of which describes no fewer than 36 patients . |
| 13 | Fleming and Bacon played no fewer than 65 games in their two matches , firstly defeating Telford 's Ray Bratt and Shaun Crampton , 6–4 , 4–6 , 8–6 , before losing to the tough Somas , 4–6 , 7–5 , 6–3 . |
| 14 | Ender , 33 , is unlikely now to produce the kind of speed that helped her break no fewer than 27 world records during her distinguished career . |
| 15 | They have named no fewer than four Welsh internationals in their formidable line-up against a county generally struggling to avoid the wooden spoon . |
| 16 | Even before he became king , Edward sent out some ninety-four letters to religious superiors asking for benefices , pensions and corrodies for his clerks , and in the course of his reign over four hundred and fifty requests for corrodies , addressed to over two hundred houses , have been counted in just the Calendar of Close Rolls ; between 1308 and 1327 Worcester priory received no fewer than fifty-one royal requests on behalf of royal servants . |
| 17 | The American western railroads received no fewer than 155 million acres of land as subsidies and guarantees . |
| 18 | From the Villa Elena you can see no fewer than eleven extinct volcanos and a distant view of the sea , only slightly marred by smoke belching from an industrial plant two miles away . |
| 19 | He has used no fewer than 28 players in league matches this season and has plucked players from all football cultures . |
| 20 | The supermarket giant has had no fewer than four scrip issues in this period and on each occasion the number of shares held has effectively doubled . |
| 21 | Hodson admitted that , prior to giving evidence to the Committee , he had had no fewer than twenty meetings with Francis Place , the radical tailor of Charing Cross Road . |
| 22 | Gál was a consummate craftsman , and he wrote an enormous amount of music , not least for mandolin ; indeed , a quick look at the catalogue compiled by his daughter Eva to celebrate his 95th birthday reveals no fewer than fifteen works involving that instrument . |
| 23 | Fred Finn , who appears in the Guinness Book of World Records as the world 's most travelled person , has clocked up a mind-boggling ten million miles since he started travelling on business , back in 1958 — and that includes no fewer than 687 flights on Concorde . |
| 24 | This happened no fewer than four times between 1974 and 1977 until , finally , at the end of 1977 , the Secretary of State announced that instead of the 75,000 to 85,000 places indicated in the 1972 White Paper , the target would be 45,000 . |
| 25 | The Scholarships , which cover 7 sports , of which tennis is one , have helped no fewer than 420 youngsters in the first five years of their existence . |
| 26 | Thus it came about that if you walked into a bar in Babylon around 2000 B.C. you could have sampled no fewer than 16 different beers . |
| 27 | His career spanned 25 years ( 1832–1857 ) and he achieved lasting fame by scoring no fewer than 162 during a match played on ice in 1841 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | He and Kenneth started conversing using no fewer than five-syllable words before he 'd even got out of the car , and have been rabbiting happily like two philatelists over a rare collection . |
| 30 | Shipbuilders and Repairers completing no fewer than 42 naval vessels , including Corvettes , Minesweepers , Frigates , Tugs , Trawlers and other miscellaneous craft . |