fewer

1. 1.comparative degree of few; a smaller number.

   • Fewer women wear hats these days.
   • There are fewer tigers than there were a hundred years ago.
   • Construction of the station and approach line involved considerable engineering work and the demolition of no fewer than 540 houses and a church, […].

2. 2.Less; a smaller amount of something non-integral commonly expressed as an integer

   • Leaving from my home in Alameda, the heavily BART-assisted journey took fewer than five hours round trip.

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• few