Fewer
Fewer adjective - (comparative of `few' used with count nouns) quantifier meaning a smaller number of.
Minute and fewer are semantically related. in hardly any topic. In some cases you can use "Minute" instead an adjective "Fewer".
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Scores of 7 or fewer would require the boxer to get knocked down several times in a 3-minute span.
Source: Four Point Scale -
On one occasion, she even openly challenged Ramsay's decision to name the Blue Team the winners, despite the fact that they had fewer chefs and still finished well over a minute ahead of the Red Team.
Source: Series / Hell's Kitchen - The songs are shorter and less elaborate (none reach the nine minute mark and several are under five minutes), John Myung is much more active in the bass, and John Petrucci plays a lot more riffs and fewer solos.
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