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Fewer

Few \Few\ (f[=u]),

  1. [Compar. Fewer (f[=u]"[~e]r); superl. Fewest.] [OE. fewe, feawe, AS. fe['a], pl. fe['a]we; akin to OS. f[=a]h, OHG. f[=o] fao, Icel. f[=a]r, Sw. f[*a], pl., Dan. faa, pl., Goth. faus, L. paucus, cf. Gr. pay^ros. Cf. Paucity.] Not many; small, limited, or confined in number; -- indicating a small portion of units or individuals constituting a whole; often, by ellipsis of a noun, a few people. ``Are not my days few?''
    --Job x. 20.

    Few know and fewer care.
    --Prover

  2. Note: Few is often used partitively; as, few of them.

    A few, a small number.

    In few, in a few words; briefly.
    --Shak.

    No few, not few; more than a few; many.
    --Cowper.

    The few, the minority; -- opposed to the many or the majority.

Wiktionary
fewer

det. The comparative of '''few'''; a smaller number.

WordNet
fewer

adj. (comparative of `few' used with count nouns) quantifier meaning a smaller number of; "fewer birds came this year"; "the birds are fewer this year"; "fewer trains were late" [ant: more(a)]

Usage examples of "fewer".

Why is it that people feel that revenge is justified, and acceptable, and that one is hot-blooded and human to undertake it, yet that to quietly prevent it is cold-blooded and ruthless-even if, in the end, far fewer souls suffer?

Flutak could devise-each time with fewer advantages than the time before.

I lose fewer lancers than any other officer for the number of kills and battles.

He will also need to figure a counter to their new use of the broad front-one that will cost him even fewer lancers.

Now that there are fewer fireships, we can see the lack of respect growing.

The term implies that there are fewer firewagons, not just less chaos-cells for them.

Lorn has yet to determine how to accomplish the far more simple task of reducing the raids from Jerans with fewer golds and less Mirror Lancer casualties.

Because we have fewer warships, our traders pay higher tariffs elsewhere in the world.

Raising tariffs will lower the golds we gather because fewer goods will come to Cyad and fewer will leave.

Without more golds we cannot pay for more Mirror Lancers, but we will need more lancers because we have fewer firelances and firewagons.

That takes more coins, but if tariffs go up, there is less trade and fewer coins.

Caution is one, for a woman can make fewer errors, and so, I learned caution early.

They seem almost as normal, although there may be a touch fewer souls about.

The thinner the air, the fewer molecules press against any one point on the wing.

In the following decades, the changing economics of flying forced fewer flight attendants to oversee more passengers, and their job became increasingly important and difficult.