fewer
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- adjective
- /ˈfjuːər/
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menos
- All right, At this point, fewer and fewer people should be standing.
- fewer than half
- fewer than 10 percent
- fewer than 10
What I really mean is do fewer things at once.
- What I really mean is do fewer things at once.
- But across the day, I ingest fewer calories than I burn.
- And there are far fewer words than concepts.
- The more details you add, the fewer people you'll reach.
- And that means fewer mounts, fewer clamps.
- So if I got them now, there are fewer available for other people.
- It is easier when you have fewer bridges to cross.
- Higher AMH, Fewer eggs in the vault, fewer come out, lower AMH.
- Fewer competitors in the jobs market, fewer competitors in the housing market.
- So that is fewer reps, but much heavier weight.
- But productivity gains basically means fewer humans doing the same thing.
- So that that's one reason that people the fewer and fewer people.
- So the young people tends to have fewer priests journeying with them.
- They have much less fewer friends or at least meaningful friendships.
Examples
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Fewer forests means more greenhouse gases entering the atmosphere, which in turn increases the severity of climate change.
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And there are far fewer words than concepts.
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So if I got them now, there are fewer available for other people.
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First, they start to encourage women to have fewer and fewer children.
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So we have fewer tenure track jobs.
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Fewer than 6 percent reported that their ability to read, speak, and understand English was "very good."
Academic text (2011) -
Fewer women than men intended to engage in casual sex on spring break.
Academic text (1998) -
Fewer studies have been conducted on the effectiveness of performance feedback to influence the behavior of teachers.
Academic text (1998) -
Fewer viral foodborne outbreaks occurred; however, when they did occur, the case number was usually large.
Academic text (2008) -
There are fewer students in the classroom today than usual.
Antonyms
How Many
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Fewer is the comparative of few; the -er part shows a comparison. The word few comes from an old English word meaning 'not many', so fewer means 'a smaller number' and is used with things you can count.