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Fewer

adjective

(comparative of 'few' used with count nouns) quantifier meaning a smaller number of. "The birds are fewer this year" , "Fewer trains were late"

Few

adjective

(compar. fewer; superl. fewest)

A quantifier that can be used with count nouns and is often preceded by 'a'; a small but indefinite number. "A few more wagons than usual" , "An invalid's pleasures are few and far between" , "Few roses were still blooming" , "Few women have led troops in battle"

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"Fewer" Quotes from Famous Books

... and crabbed age try to live together. In such hazardous unions the junior partner is, for some unexplained reason, of the sex which has the repute of a generic fickleness as well as the supposed volatility of its fewer years. Probably repute wrongs it as much in one respect as in the other, but our friend contends only for greater justice to it in the last. In the light that he has come into, he holds that where such unions are unhappy, though they may have been formed with a fair appearance of affection, it is ...

— Imaginary Interviews • W. D. Howells

... we have had to contend with a much superior force—by the evacuation of Bahia— the flight of the Portuguese fleet—the capture of great part of their transports and troops—and the surrender of Maranham—all in fewer months than the Chilian Government have employed years without having even yet accomplished their object, nay, with no other result than that of removing the independence of Peru, and their own peace and security to a ...

— Narrative of Services in the Liberation of Chili, Peru and Brazil, - from Spanish and Portuguese Domination, Volume 1 • Thomas Cochrane, Tenth Earl of Dundonald

... with fewer," explained Dawson modestly. "But I want to make sure work. Give me eighty Marines, none of less than five years' service, a couple of sergeants, and a lieutenant—a regular pukka lieutenant. Give them to me, and make me temporarily a captain in command, ...

— The Lost Naval Papers • Bennet Copplestone

... Sulat weavers produce fewer mats than those of Basey but make them of fine, closely woven straw. Most of the mats with a woven-on border come from Sulat. These people, while able to produce a fine, soft, pliable mat, can not embroider decorations on them nearly so well as do ...

— Philippine Mats - Philippine Craftsman Reprint Series No. 1 • Hugo H. Miller

... indeed his debut in the Russian world of music; and alas! it gained for him fewer friends than enemies. For, of all types of men and women upon earth, those into whom Euterpe has breathed her spirit, are certainly the most practised in envy, hatred, malice ...

— The Genius • Margaret Horton Potter

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