The phrase "area fewer than" is not correct in standard English usage.
The correct expression would typically be "area less than" when referring to a measurement of space.
Example: "The area less than 100 square meters is designated for small projects."
Alternatives: "area smaller than" or "area below".
But on Tuesday the former coalition health minister, Liberal Democrat Paul Burstow, reported in response to a parliamentary question, that in some areas fewer than one in 100 people in contact with secondary mental health services are in work.
Fears for nuclear-armed Pakistan's internal stability have been intense following a recent spate of high-profile suicide bombings, a push by militants into areas fewer than 100 miles from the capital, and an economic crisis which this week saw 20 people die in stampedes for food.
In seven of the nine urban areas, fewer than half of specialists sampled belonged to provider networks in Obamacare exchanges.
"We know that bowel cancer screening saves lives by leading to early diagnosis yet in some areas fewer than half of those eligible are actually taking it up".
Of about 5 million properties in flood hazard areas, fewer than a third are insured by the National Flood Insurance Program.
It found that in all five areas, fewer than half reached dispatchers with an estimate of the caller's location in December 2012, ranging from 49% passing along location data in Bakersfield down to just 20% in San Francisco.
16 Urban and rural areas were classified according to the definition used by Federal Bureau of Statistics, where thinly populated, largely agricultural areas (fewer than 5000 people) with poor availability of basic amenities (eg, sewerage system, telephone lines) are considered rural.
Across all areas, fewer than 20% of home non-SBA deliveries used a clean delivery kit, the use of plastic gloves was very low and coverage of recommended thermal care was relatively poor.
