Fewer
Fewer adjective - (comparative of `few' used with count nouns) quantifier meaning a smaller number of.
Short and fewer are semantically related. in hardly any topic. In some cases you can use "Short" instead an adjective "Fewer".
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Both words in one sentence
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However, emergency heart surgery in 2004 forced him to cut the tour short, resulting in him making fewer and fewer concert, film, etc.
Source: Music / David Bowie - Note: Articles that are too much of a stub (very short description, fewer than four tropes, no subpages, very few wicks) may not be worth being namespaced at all; they should instead be cutlisted.
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The best that can be said about them is that they make fewer sailors complain about short rations.
Source: Indestructible Edible
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