Feargal Quinn (Independent)

I am an expert on this matter because my company used to have signs on its many dozens of express checkouts which said "Not less than ten items". I received many letters from experts in grammar about these signs and, as a result, I went to considerable pains and cost to change them and substitute the word "fewer". I understand that the term "less" refers to bulk, while that of "fewer" refers to numbers. Having gone to all that trouble, I just want to ensure that everyone else does so also. I had a similar experience in respect of changing wordings at Heathrow Airport. I cost the authorities there many hundreds of thousands of pounds to change the spelling of the word "trolleys" on its signs. The company had put up signs about trolleys not being left unattended with the word spelled as "trollies". I did something similar at Dublin Airport when the first sign was put up. The Bill should be correct not only from a legal point of view but also from a grammatical point of view.