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Example sentences for "fewer than"

  • His reign was extended to the unusual length of thirty-five years, during which time he conducted in person no fewer than twenty-three military expeditions, besides entrusting three or four others to a favorite general.

  • Finally, we have the remarkable scene represented in the illustration, a work of the sane date, where no fewer than twenty-six performers are seen uniting their efforts.

  • They were governed by a number of petty chiefs or "kings," of whom no fewer than twenty-three are particularized.

  • In Sargon's palace at Khorsabad the size of no single room was so great; but the number of halls was remarkable, there being no fewer than five of nearly equal dimensions.

  • He counted no fewer than forty in the cluster called the Pleiades, or Seven Stars; and he has given us drawings of this constellation, as well as of the belt and sword of Orion, and of the nebula of Præsepe.

  • This monster vine produces annually from five to six tons of grapes, and one year it yielded no fewer than 7,000 bunches, each from one to four pounds in weight.

  • The young men's association has no fewer than half a dozen buildings, the property of the village.

  • I was informed that there were no fewer than 400 cooperative organisations in the prefecture.

  • I was told that in the prefecture we were passing through there were no fewer than 360 co-operative societies.

  • As to kō, from philanthropic motives my informant was a member of no fewer than ten.

  • The building was continued, and up to the outbreak of war no fewer than twenty-five had been completed.

  • Beginning originally with a small programme the type passed through various developments until, at the conclusion of the war, no fewer than 150 ships of various kinds had been constructed.

  • The Director shall select no fewer than 6 communities to participate in a demonstration project.

  • Manchester has no fewer than five, including the recent noble gift of the "Whitworth.

  • There were no fewer than seventeen of these gas-balloons arranged in a single line within the envelope.

  • The effect of the military order was to reduce the effective strength by no fewer than 558 aeroplanes.

  • In the United States there are no fewer than fifty-three publications devoted to the interests of the deaf, most of them being school magazines published in the institutions themselves.

  • In Edinburgh, as we learn from one of his letters, the book succeeded well, no fewer than 450 copies being disposed of in five weeks.

  • Paris, 1854) contains no fewer than forty-seven treatises, commentaries and collections of sermons.

  • The oldest grammar preserved is that of Panini, who, however, mentions no fewer than sixty-four predecessors.

  • Indian fables translated into Chinese, and cite no fewer than 202 Buddhist works as their sources.

  • The storehouses of Rome were of the most extensive character, there being no fewer than 290 public horrea at the time of Constantine.

  • In the remaining twenty-three years of his life he poured forth no fewer than thirty-eight volumes, besides numberless articles, squibs and sketches.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fewer than" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    adopted child; alcoholic solution; cold alcohol; doing everything; during the breeding season; feet above; fewer than; good conversation; light matter; modern methods; nature from; offer himself; often known; readily detected; see the; short silence; smiling face; snow fell; stellar evolution; the salt; tons register; upon every