Example sentences of "[coord] [art] fewer " in BNC.

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1 The higher the performance , the greater the cost , and the fewer the weapons the Services can buy ; and the shorter the production runs , the larger the overheads and the higher the price , leading to ever smaller orders .
2 The principle seems to be that the closer the potential person approaches its realisation and the fewer the remaining hurdles to surmount , the more attributes of the actual person seem proper to it .
3 The hordes of weak orientals … and the fewer but richer , deadlier westerners .
4 Their days of cruelty are numbered and the fewer days before fox hunting is banned the better .
5 Hopes were high for a pleasant summer 's day fishing , but unfortunately this was not to be : heavy wind and rain — and a stomach-churning eight foot swell — resulted in a lot of green faces and a fewer that expected number of fish being caught .
6 At the other end of the long façade was a huge clock-tower , and no fewer than six lesser domes finished the corner and entrance elements of the station .
7 He is remembered chiefly for his series of twenty Organ Sonatas , but there is much more besides ; a substantial corpus of choral music , including three Requiems and no fewer than twelve Masses , two operas , a Symphony , symphonic poem , two Concertos for Organ ( once upon a time available from E. Power Biggs on a CBS LP ) and one for Piano — and a fair amount of chamber music , sixteen opus numbers in all , of which this Thorofon CD ( the least of seven ) rounds off a complete recording .
8 In early September 1666 , the old city of London was devastated by the Great Fire , which as well as destroying thousands of secular buildings left old St Paul 's with severe structural damage , and no fewer than eighty-seven of the capital 's parish churches gutted or in ruins .
9 He is currently 114th , his reward for top-four finishes in the recent German and English Opens , and no fewer than 11 under-par rounds from four big tournaments during August .
10 And no fewer than five sets of relatives live in the street where the couple are now staying with Mrs Bulger 's mother .
11 Again it is fine to add such a trim but the fewer you put on the more attractive they look .
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