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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

... is at a low price than when it is at a high price, and, in fact, they must consume more: they live upon wheat instead of barley; they lived upon barley formerly, and now they live upon wheat, and eat fewer potatoes probably. ...

— Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. Volume 3 • Henry Hunt

... punt. I was standing up; I had jumped to my feet when the thing occurred. I stooped and touched the wing. The bird was quite dead! Sime, I pulled the swan's head out of the water, and—his neck was broken; no fewer than ...

— Brood of the Witch-Queen • Sax Rohmer

... lords succeeded in protecting merchants on land, and the merchants armed vessels of their own to drive the pirates from the sea. As trade grew greater the towns became richer and stronger and the robbers and pirates fewer, so that the number of merchant ships increased rapidly and long voyages ...

— Introductory American History • Henry Eldridge Bourne and Elbert Jay Benton

... plainly set forth, and the general conclusion of the book (that 'emancipation' is not only possible, but most expedient, and that, with certain care upon the part of the Government and of slave owners, an immediate and simultaneous liberation is likely to breed fewer disturbances and less evil than gradual disenthralment) seems to be rapidly gaining ground in the convictions of our own countrymen. The conscience, and prophetic dreams of priests, women, and poets, have long given assurance of such results, but the world, of course, required definite ...

— The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 - Devoted to Literature and National Policy • Various

... hands, and listened to a torrent of excited Italian from no fewer than ten crazy clerks. Then I stated the case in English. The proprietor turned to Mrs. Jimmie, and said if madam was so sure that she had worn a ring, which all his clerks assured him she had not ...

— As Seen By Me • Lilian Bell

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