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fewer

fjuər
WordNet
Interesting fact
In Los Angeles, there are fewer people than there are automobiles
  1. (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"
Quotations
The more you say, the less people remember. The fewer the words, the greater the profit.
Francois FeNelon
Martin Luther
The fewer the words, the better the prayer.
Martin Luther
Peter F. Drucker
Meetings are a symptom of bad organization. The fewer meetings the better.
Peter F. Drucker
Socrates
The fewer our wants the more we resemble the Gods.
Socrates
Kenneth Branagh
Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.
Kenneth Branagh
William Shakespeare
If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor.
William Shakespeare
Usage in the news

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

Usage in scientific papers

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

Usage in literature

In the next year there were still fewer. "The "Adventurers of England" on Hudson Bay" by Agnes C. (Agnes Christina) Laut

One suspects that the greater the preacher, the fewer his books. "The Evolution of the Country Community" by Warren H. Wilson

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 Elsie Lincoln Benedict and Ralph Paine Benedict

Easier and more natural, we are of opinion; and he might have written fewer. "Robert Burns" by Gabriel Setoun

They became fewer as we advanced, until finally the last pair had been left behind. "Gold" by Stewart White

Today fewer than one school in a hundred in the two provinces is a separate school. "The Day of Sir Wilfrid Laurier" by Oscar D. Skelton

But if Count Vocking possessed fewer books than the lieutenant, he apparently surpassed him greatly in other respects. "'Jena' or 'Sedan'?" by Franz Beyerlein

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 Jane Austen

As the cards get fewer and fewer the excitement grows and grows. "What Shall We Do Now?: Five Hundred Games and Pastimes" by Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Some sounds may have fewer meanings attached to them, but others will have many more. "Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 2" by Various

Usage in poetry
'Few,' he sighed, 'they come, and fewer,
To the cocorite bowers;
Murdered, madly, through the forests
Which of yore were theirs—and ours
And when the group might fewer grow
The vacant chairs should still be placed
Around the board whereon should glow
The glories of the earliest feast.
``But few are they that hear,
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.
Of you I thought;—but so think few and fewer.
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.
Let me tell thee, Miss Prudence must not make a stand,
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.
There could not be fewer than fifty carriages in the procession that day,
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.