"fewer persons" is correct and usable in written English.
You would typically use "fewer persons" when you are referring to people, or when you are referring to items that can be counted individually. For example, "The new safety laws require fewer persons to be present on the construction site."
Fewer siblings and fewer persons in child's living room had significant association with overweight and obesity, and both factors showed a significant independent inverse association with BMI.
"There are no more or fewer persons of alternative sexuality in our fandom than anywhere else".
In 2030, the working-age population will probably have 6.3 million fewer persons than in 2010.
Urban growth was stimulated by the mechanization of agriculture, which brought about the working of more land by fewer persons, decreases in the number of farms, and increases in average farm size.
Patients who had disclosed their seropositive status to more than 30 persons showed greater personal competence, higher standards, and greater tenacity than patients who had revealed their seropositive status to fewer persons (1 5 persons).
The labor market covariates include the following: marital status; health status; and binary variables for small localities (cities with 100,000 or fewer persons) and large cities (metropolitan areas with 5,000,000 or more individuals), experience, and region.
At least The Cycle distinguishes itself from The Five on Fox News, by having one fewer person on the panel.
Still, misery loves company and one fewer person to pay rent and endure this with us is a real shame.
Your deposit in a small bank could mean one fewer person in the now-staggeringly long unemployment line.
Because of fewer person-days of observations and domination of PM2.5 analyses with observations from urban subjects, the PM2.5 findings may not be representative of the general population.
Few persons would wish to go so far.
