This example is from the
Daily Telegraph (15 April 2013).
Fewer is wrong here;
less is normally used for statistical measures (e.g.
less than 30% per cent, not
fewer than ...).
Fewer would have been correct if a raw figure had been used, e.g.
Fewer than 200 readers scored full marks.
The error was particularly ironic because it appeared in an article about good grammar.
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