Fewer

Examples

• He carried his sixty years as if they had been fewer than forty. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The 8000 or so motion-picture theatres of the country employ no fewer than 40,000 people, whose aggregate annual income amounts to not less than $37,000,000. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The grey pavement had been cleaned and scraped, but was still dangerously slippery, so that there were fewer passengers than usual. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Every day fewer good. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• To this effect, in as few or fewer words, the Public Prosecutor. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Italy has not as many telephones as San Francisco, and all Russia, fewer than Chicago. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• A family which exercised great hospitality, would be taxed much more lightly than one who entertained fewer guests. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• In regard to animals, much fewer experiments have been carefully tried than with plants. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• But statistics do not show that as a whole there are fewer printers in the land. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• I found, now I had leisure to count them, that there were no fewer than six little Pockets present, in various stages of tumbling up. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• I hope there will be more wheat and fewer tares every year, said Amy softly. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Formica sanguinea, on the other hand, possesses much fewer slaves, and in the early part of the summer extremely few. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• There are fewer abroad in the courts and gardens, though, said Thuvia. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• The experiments are, therefore, sure to be watched with a great deal of interest, and it is probable that fewer accidents will occur from broken rails in the near future. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Do not crowd them, as the fewer the number together the better, and never have different ages together. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• That fewer still, in public affairs, act with a view to the good of mankind. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• I see you know how to profit by my advice, and you made fewer faces. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• I went straight to Judy Trenor; she has fewer prejudices than the others, and besides she's always hated Bertha Dorset. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• I am cheated in fewer things than you imagine. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• No fewer than six hundred wagons came clattering in, and as many as twenty sail vessels were loaded with thirty-five thousand bushels of grain, during a single day. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• He went to Rome himself, and saw the Pope again, but found that his friends were fewer and his enemies growing more powerful. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Every room has in it one or more projectors; and I believe I could not be in fewer than five hundred rooms. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• As the distance decreases the echo repeats fewer syllables till it becomes monosyllabic. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• By the great number of people who are maintained abroad, fewer are maintained at home. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Oh, yes; I have known him solve questions which presented fewer clues than yours. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• Thus, we can account for the fact that all organisms, recent and extinct, are included under a few great orders and under still fewer classes. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• They, too, found that many substances had each its own peculiar effect in the refraction and dispersion of light, and introduced no fewer than twenty-eight new substances in glass making. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• But Harriet was less humble, had fewer scruples than formerly. Jane Austen. Emma.
• A mixed force of no fewer than 10,000 men was scraped together, an enormous force for the time and country. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• No fewer than four silver candelabras, holding great waxen torches, served to illuminate this apartment. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.

Editor: Lyle