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fewer::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
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fewer birds came this year.
the birds are fewer this year.
fewer trains were late.
Examples of fewer
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Selling something at a fair price to fewer customers is a better place to be in.
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Pelini is a man of few words and fewer press conferences and public appearances.
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Our nonprofit sector cannot afford to receive fewer or smaller charitable gifts.
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Rangers are in second place with 65 points, two fewer than Glasgow rival Celtic.
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The initial estimate is that consolidation would mean about 25 fewer state jobs.
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Among companies with fewer than 10 employees, she said, the jump was 13 percent.
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The Panthers have held three of their past four opponents to 52 points or fewer.
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Fewer consumers fell behind on their credit-card payments in the fourth quarter.
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Broadly, Mr. Obama asked for a simplified tax code and fewer regulatory burdens.
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- A quantifier that can be used with count nouns and is often preceded by `a'; a small but indefinite number; "a few weeks ago"; "a few more wagons than usual"; "an invalid's pleasures are few and far between"; "few roses were still blooming"; "few women have led troops in battle"
- A small elite group; "it was designed for the discriminating few"
- A few(a): more than one but indefinitely small in number; "a few roses"; "a couple of roses"
- (fewness) the quality of being small in number
- Quantity is a kind of property which exists as magnitude or multitude. It is among the basic classes of things along with quality, substance, change, and relation. Quantity was first introduced as quantum, an entity having quantity. ...
- The Few is a term used to describe the Allied airmen of the British Royal Air Force (RAF) who fought the Battle of Britain in the Second World War. It comes from Winston Churchill's phrase "never was so much owed by so many to so few".
- Few people, few things; An indefinite, but usually small, number of; Not many; a small (in comparison with another number stated or implied) but somewhat indefinite number of; (US?) Obscuring one eighth to two eighths of the sky; (US? ...
- The amount of sky cover for a cloud layer between 1/8th and 2/8ths, based on the summation layer amount for that layer.
- [JP 1-02] (DoD) In air intercept usage, seven or fewer aircraft. See also many (raid size).
