English example sentences with "fewer"

Learn how to use fewer in a English sentence. Over 100 hand-picked examples.

Are you creating for us a future world where there is a greater danger of skin cancer, weakened bodies, less food and fewer plants and animals?

It's true that there are fewer children due to the falling birthrate, and there are fewer children in the school, but that is all to the good.

It's true that there are fewer children due to the falling birthrate, and there are fewer children in the school, but that is all to the good.

If there weren't so many taxis, there would be fewer traffic accidents.

Pretty soon there were more of them on the road and fewer carriages pulled by horses.

There are no fewer than a dozen bedrooms in this mansion.

The fewer, the better.

The fact that nowadays fewer men smoke is a headache for the Japanese tobacco industry.

The number of errors of fact in Arendt's book are considerably fewer than Abel implies.

No fewer than fifty thousand people visited there.

No fewer than 50 passengers were killed.

No fewer than five hundred students were present.

No fewer than thirty people were present.

There were fewer accidents this year than last.

There were fewer children attending school in our village in 1975 than in 1965.

My hens laid fewer eggs last year.

Instead of fewer accidents there are more.

Those present were fewer than we had expected.

We're getting fewer and fewer students.

We're getting fewer and fewer students.

Fewer people have come to wear hats after the war.

The more careful you are, the fewer mistakes you make.

The popularity of the telephone has led to fewer people writing letters these days.

His uncle owns no fewer than ten houses.

He has collected no fewer than five hundred stamps.

He has fewer friends than I.

She has no fewer than seven sons.

Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths.

I have fewer students in my class this year than last year.

My attitude to the comma is physiological; the more breath I have, the fewer commas I use.

Even though student numbers are increasing, on the whole, fewer scholarships have been granted.

This newspaper is selling fewer and fewer copies.

This newspaper is selling fewer and fewer copies.

I was amazed to learn that fewer and fewer young people can write in cursive.

I was amazed to learn that fewer and fewer young people can write in cursive.

Fewer workers meant fewer people with money to buy goods.

Fewer workers meant fewer people with money to buy goods.

Fort Moultrie had fewer than seventy soldiers.

More tractors meant fewer horses and mules.

Families began to have fewer and fewer children.

Families began to have fewer and fewer children.

I have fewer books than you.

Although he had fewer supporters among the governing class, he was able to get the popular vote.

In the first place, the women have more free time than men. In the second place, they have fewer things to worry about than men.

Fewer young people know how to write in longhand.

If you ate fewer burgers, you'd probably be healthier.

If you want to sound more like a native speaker of American English, watch more American TV programs and fewer British TV programs.

The doctor told me to eat fewer high-calorie snacks.

The pictures in this advertisement are fewer than the frames actually available.

Do you want this octopus to have fewer legs?

I have fewer students than Pedro does.

When exactly is a language considered endangered? When its speakers cease to use it, use it in fewer and fewer domains, use fewer of its speaking styles, or stop passing it on to the next generation.

When exactly is a language considered endangered? When its speakers cease to use it, use it in fewer and fewer domains, use fewer of its speaking styles, or stop passing it on to the next generation.

When exactly is a language considered endangered? When its speakers cease to use it, use it in fewer and fewer domains, use fewer of its speaking styles, or stop passing it on to the next generation.

I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.

We also have fewer horses and bayonets because the nature of our military has changed.

What should we deduce from Aristotle's assertion that women have fewer teeth than men: that he had small knowledge of women or that he couldn't count?

Fewer people come here every year.

The trend is always to produce more products using fewer employees.

There were no fewer than five women standing outside, claiming to be his wife.

Tom will make fewer mistakes once he gets to know the ropes.

Fewer people came than we were expecting.

Only some people will answer this question and fewer yet can answer it.

Mary has fewer friends than Kate.

Fewer and fewer people are working to support more and more people living on government benefits.

Fewer and fewer people are working to support more and more people living on government benefits.

There were fewer people at the rally than organisers had hoped for.

Animal shelters find that fewer people want to adopt black cats, so many more black cats are euthanized than any other colour.

Fewer teenagers are working nowadays.

In modern professional tennis, winning a big tournament is considered a greater achievement than winning several smaller tournaments of the same combined value. Hence, top players typically concentrate on bigger tournaments and only play a few smaller ones in between. Consequently, top players play and win fewer matches than before. Since Ivan Lendl won 106 out of 115 matches he played in 1982, nobody won more than 90 matches in a single season, except Roger Federer, who went 92-5 in 2006.

Fewer graphics and more captions would make the description clearer.

When I was growing up, fewer than 300,000 girls played high school sports. Today, because of Title IX, more than 3 million girls are on the field.

Venice now has fewer than 60,000 residents.

The fewer who know, the better.

The fewer who know about it, the better.

The fewer people who know, the better.

We may be fewer than we would like, but we are far more numerous than you can imagine.

Tom has fewer friends than Mary.

As we spend a lot of time watching T.V., we will read fewer books.

Tom has fewer friends than I do.

We would have fewer problems if we did this the way Tom told us to.

Russian forests crash down under the axe, billions of trees are dying, the habitations of animals and birds are laid waste, rivers grow shallow and dry up, marvelous landscapes are disappearing forever.... Man is endowed with creativity in order to multiply that which has been given him; he has not created, but destroyed. There are fewer and fewer forests, rivers are drying up, wildlife has become extinct, the climate is ruined, and the earth is becoming ever poorer and uglier.

Russian forests crash down under the axe, billions of trees are dying, the habitations of animals and birds are laid waste, rivers grow shallow and dry up, marvelous landscapes are disappearing forever.... Man is endowed with creativity in order to multiply that which has been given him; he has not created, but destroyed. There are fewer and fewer forests, rivers are drying up, wildlife has become extinct, the climate is ruined, and the earth is becoming ever poorer and uglier.

Doesn't language death mean fewer barriers to communication?

The fewer words, the better.

The population of Japanese people is at least 300,000 fewer than last year.

In a few days the vines were stripped, the grapes were trodden, and the wine was poured into the jars, so that fewer hands were wanted, and they were at liberty to drive their flocks to the fields.

You're making fewer mistakes.

Educated people tend to have fewer children.

If current trends continue, by the year 2050 the Americas will have 15 percent fewer plants and animals than now. That means there will be 40 percent fewer plants and animals in the Americas than in the early 1700s.

If current trends continue, by the year 2050 the Americas will have 15 percent fewer plants and animals than now. That means there will be 40 percent fewer plants and animals in the Americas than in the early 1700s.

Americans are having fewer babies.

Canadians are having fewer children.

Tom has two fewer toys than Mary.

Tom has fewer toys than Mary.

Down through the misty vistas of the ages rings a clarion declaration and although the very heavens echo to the reverberations, but few hear and fewer understand: "In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God."   Here then is the eternal paradox. The Word is lost yet it is ever with us. The light that illumines the distant horizon shines in our hearts. "Thou wouldist not seek me hadst thou not found me." We travel afar only to find that which we hunger for at home.

However, there are fewer people learning Chinese, so I think Chinese people are not too familiar with the foreign accents and mistakes.

We find that the centering of the management of industries into fewer and fewer hands makes the trades unions unable to cope with the ever-growing power of the employing class.

We find that the centering of the management of industries into fewer and fewer hands makes the trades unions unable to cope with the ever-growing power of the employing class.

Now there are fewer blacksmiths because we rarely use a horse as a draught animal.

In Algeria, Berber has fewer native speakers than Arabic.

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