Example sentences of "[prep] [art] fewer " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is usual to use boards large enough to reach from the floor to the ceiling as the fewer joints you have the smoother the wall finish will be . |
| 2 | Fewer patients were referred from peripheral hospitals in the region , even though one would expect the many peripheral hospitals jointly to have seen as many patients with similar problems as the fewer large central district general hospitals . |
| 3 | If he makes it — and many experts think he can — it will be a massive vindication of his decision four years ago to quit a promising school career after no fewer than nine O-levels , giving up the chance of A-levels and university to turn squash professional at the tender age of just 17 . |
| 4 | The Chairman , for example , was one of no fewer than five Irish Americans to have held the top job in UM . |
| 5 | It also became the largest city in Western Europe , with walls enclosing an area of no fewer than 483 acres . |
| 6 | Henry replied , in an open letter , ‘ It is I ’ , and over the course of no fewer than 63 pages drew a factual , logical and haunting picture of the plight of his beloved Combsburgh , as he perceived it in the winter of 1830/31 . |
| 7 | This stretch of coastline contains the outlets of no fewer than seven rivers . |
| 8 | One mole-nest was found with an adjoining store of no fewer than 1 , 280 worms . |
| 9 | It was a red-letter day for his supporters everywhere when , on 31 December 1720 , a son was born to James 's new young wife , in the presence of no fewer than 100 cardinals , ambassadors and other important witnesses ; clearly the charge of being a ‘ warming-pan ’ changeling was not going to be laid against Charles Edward . |
| 10 | The RPK has not been formally registered : it has 2,000 members and Russian law requires that a new party must present a list of no fewer than 5,000 members to register with the justice ministry . |
| 11 | However , he thought it was probably the second language of no fewer than ninety per cent of Tanzanians . |
| 12 | That victory was a first in a Grand Slam tournament for Panatta , one of no fewer than 14 players since ‘ 77 to have made winning Grand Slam debuts in Paris . |
| 13 | THE recovery of no fewer than eleven kinds of filamentous microfossil from 3,465-million-year-old rocks in Western Australia ( J. W. Schopf Science 260 , 640–646 ; 1993 ) , shows that life was not only in existence a few hundred million years after the planet was formed , but was thriving : rarely does one find single fossils of this antiquity , let alone entire communities . |
| 14 | When W. S. Rockstro made the first thorough-going attempt at a life of Handel in 1883 , he had before him a list of no fewer than 53 likenesses made during the composer 's lifetime . |
| 15 | The output of no fewer than 30 government ‘ think tanks ’ was devoted to the cost-cutting priorities of animal rearing in post-war years . |
| 16 | Is the Opposition spokesman afraid that people will remember the days before the Government 's policy when political meddling led to huge overcapacity , massive losses and the closure of no fewer than three plants under Labour in Scotland alone ? |
| 17 | Planning on these lines reached its climax at Lisbon in February 1952 when the target of no fewer than 94 divisions for the defence of Europe was agreed . |
| 18 | The late 1720s , the most brutal time of all with its bad harvests , high prices , and killer epidemics , saw off no fewer than six Titfords within two years ; the period 1766/7 also claimed its victims in the family , as did the winter and spring of 1771 , as we have seen ; and the near-famine year of 1795 , following hard on a winter which was said to herald something resembling a new ice-age , had brought the death of Charles the Cheesemonger 's wife Elizabeth . |
| 19 | And all at high speed , through no fewer than 3830 kilometres before the race finishes on the Champs Elysées . |
| 20 | Created out of personal knowledge and friendship with most of the players he writes about , Bellamy makes full use of his uncanny anecdotal memory which enlivens an already creative rhetoric about no fewer than 30 great champions of yesterday , today and — dare I say it — tomorrow . |
| 21 | From 1334 to 1343 the clergy voted for no fewer than eight tenths , or from the combined provinces — and at a conservative estimate — roughly £140,000 ; in the next decade almost as much , seven tenths or some £124,000 were conceded ; during the second half of the 1350s only two tenths were granted , £35,000 ; the peace of Brétigny brought a respite from royal taxation until 1370 , after which until the end of the reign £100,000 was raised by traditional subsidies , £50,000 was sought as a special grant in 1371 ( though little of this was effectively collected ) and a graduated poll tax was imposed in 1377 . |
| 22 | Moving onshore , at McDermott 's oil industry construction yard in Ardersier , we cater for no fewer than 3,000 people on site . |
| 23 | ‘ Well fashion is still faring better than advertising in the current page squeeze , but there are now less editorial pages to correspond with the fewer advertising pages being sold in magazines ’ . |
| 24 | Either wait until the work in progress is completed or try consolidating the DCs into a fewer number of DCs . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The reason they have this versatility is that they are able to join up with no fewer than four other atoms at a time , to form chains or networks . |
| 27 | With an illustrious past stretching back over more than a century and with no fewer than 30 Championships behind them the challenge for Yorkshire cricket in 1992 is to find a team that can live up to the tradition . |
| 28 | WITH no fewer than three courses and a floodlit driving range , Hoebridge in Woking is one of Britain 's leading pay-as-you-play golf centres . |
| 29 | On page 18 we 've got Part Two of Paul Buttle 's exclusively designed circuit of the Lakes , while on page 51 there 's our new and improved Out and About section , with no fewer than 14 great walks from all over the country . |
| 30 | The competition was extremely close with no fewer than five tipsters having seven correct selections and only one failing to make 50 per cent in the markings . |