fewer
fjuər-
(adj)
fewer
(comparative of `few' used with count nouns) quantifier meaning a smaller number of "fewer birds came this year","the birds are fewer this year","fewer trains were late"
Increased Productivity With More (Not Fewer) Setups. mmsonline.com
The Otters have lost 10 games by two goals or fewer, including a 3-2 defeat against Guelph in front of 4,927 fans at Sleeman Centre Friday night. goerie.com
If more building owners and facilities managers knew the proper way to clean out their roof gutters , there would be fewer injuries and deaths and far less property damage. cmmonline.com
Fewer cars being hit by gas- guzzler tax. usatoday.com
The St William's gym seats fewer than 500 at a time, and many who arrived early lingered to await Santorum after they finished their meals. freep.com
The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists said that making birth control pills easier to get will translate into fewer unwanted pregnancies. latimes.com
Children who received vitamin D supplements had 50% fewer colds in winter. courant.com
0 Children who received vitamin D supplements had 50% fewer colds in winter. latimes.com
Three strikes law reformed, fewer harsh sentences. tahoedailytribune.com
3 strikes law reformed, fewer harsh sentences. abclocal.go.com
A new study finds those who've lost weight and kept it off tend to eat more often than heavier people — yet still took in fewer daily calories. theriver1079.com
Safer schools with smaller classes, better graduation rates and fewer gang-bangers. gazette.com
About 500 fewer students are attending South Carolina State University in Orangeburg this year, leaving the university facing a $5.5 million deficit. rdw.com
NEW YORK — Disappointing same-store sales results in June weren't necessarily unexpected, as the month typically trends weaker as shoppers have fewer reasons to shop. retailingtoday.com
Finally, a Hockey Season Hits the Ice With Fewer Games but More Questions. nytimes.com
Then the experimenters know that, in that particular experiment, there were 3 or fewer background events.
Application of Conditioning to the Gaussian-with-Boundary Problem in the Unified Approach to Confidence Intervals
This procedure can therefore be iterated to reach lower and lower energies; at each stage we trade in our current problem for a new problem defined on two fewer sites.
Dynamics and transport in random quantum systems governed by strong-randomness fixed points
We propose dual descriptions for the strong coupling limit of these NCOS (Non-Commutative Open String) theories in six or fewer spacetime dimensions.
OM Theory in Diverse Dimensions
In every step (except when |V \ Vt | = 1), the vertex v is not adjacent to ∆ vertices in Vt , but only to at most ∆ − 1, so fewer vertices are removed during rejection.
The Randomness Recycler: A new technique for perfect sampling
He measured fewer neutrinos than I predicted.
How the sun shines
In the next year there were still fewer. "The "Adventurers of England" on Hudson Bay" by
One suspects that the greater the preacher, the fewer his books. "The Evolution of the Country Community" by
Learning to read people is also a simpler process than learning to read books because there are fewer letters in the human alphabet. "How to Analyze People on Sight" by
Easier and more natural, we are of opinion; and he might have written fewer. "Robert Burns" by
They became fewer as we advanced, until finally the last pair had been left behind. "Gold" by
Today fewer than one school in a hundred in the two provinces is a separate school. "The Day of Sir Wilfrid Laurier" by
But if Count Vocking possessed fewer books than the lieutenant, he apparently surpassed him greatly in other respects. "'Jena' or 'Sedan'?" by
Many were the people who fell martyrs to the protestant Religion during her reign; I suppose not fewer than a dozen. "The Complete Project Gutenberg Works of Jane Austen" by
As the cards get fewer and fewer the excitement grows and grows. "What Shall We Do Now?: Five Hundred Games and Pastimes" by
Some sounds may have fewer meanings attached to them, but others will have many more. "Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 2" by
To the cocorite bowers;
Murdered, madly, through the forests
Which of yore were theirs—and ours
The vacant chairs should still be placed
Around the board whereon should glow
The glories of the earliest feast.
And fewer still that feel,
The meaning of my song,
Until the note be clear,
Re—echoed be the peal,
Early, and late, and long.
Your manhood's fame ere you yourself has crumbled,
And you, alas, will not find justice truer,
Till you and yours one day have fallen, humbled.
But she must attend us-we'll each take a hand;
For if this chaste damsel should never be driven,
Our faults will be fewer and sooner forgiven.
And gentlemen in some of them that had come from far away,
And in whispers some of them did say,
As the hearse bore the precious corpse away,
Along the Nethergate that day.