Englishfor English speakers
fewer English
Meaning fewer meaning
What does fewer mean?
Definitions in simple English
fewer
fewer
Synonyms fewer synonyms
What other words have the same or similar meaning as fewer?
Topics fewer topics
What do people use fewer to talk about?
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What words describe something that is less than another thing in number or amount?
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What words indicate that there is much less of something?
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What words describe something that is decreasing in number or amount?
Examples fewer examples
How do I use fewer in a sentence?
Simple sentences
No fewer than fifty thousand people visited there.
No fewer than 50 passengers were killed.
My hens laid fewer eggs last year.
Instead of fewer accidents there are more.
We're getting fewer and fewer students.
The more careful you are, the fewer mistakes you make.
He has fewer friends than I.
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.
If there weren't so many taxis, there would be fewer traffic accidents.
There are no fewer than a dozen bedrooms in this mansion.
The fewer, the better.
No fewer than five hundred students were present.
There were fewer accidents this year than last.
The popularity of the telephone has led to fewer people writing letters these days.
I have fewer books than you.
If you ate fewer burgers, you'd probably be healthier.
Fewer people come here every year.
Movie subtitles
In the meantime, we'll just cut back a little. You know, water down the soup, fewer apples in the pies, slice the meat a little thinner.
There are going to be fewer but better Russians.
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 honour.
For your information, I'll soon have fewer.
Fewer things in life give a man more pleasure than hunting.
If you can manage the launching of the body. with only officers on deck, do so. The fewer people in the know the better.
I would still see fewer bricks made and fewer Hebrews in Goshen.
It seems the human race is growing smaller jaws and having fewer teeth.
She had fewer headaches and they were less severe.
Starting tonight, Amaya's family might become fewer in number, one family member at a time.
Instead of landing your armies so far south you should have landed much further up, you would have bombed fewer cities.
And fewer children like this one would have been killed.
We need more fighters and fewer prophets except for John the Baptist.
There would be fewer questions if there were more answers.
I'll meet fewer Spanish ships that way.
In fact, the fewer people around him, the better off he'll be.
THE FEWER WHO KNOW, THE BETTER.
I never thought of it, but I guess the fewer you kill, the worse it looks.
What's always worried me about being one of the few is the way we keep on getting fewer.
I have an enemy on land with fewer troops, on sea with fewer ships.
Naturally. The guests are fewer, so they expect more.
A very ingenious theory but my advice to you, Miss Marple, is to read fewer thrillers.
What this country needs is fewer blondes.
With the full moon, we kill fewer than usual.
Fewer fairytales and more steak and red wine is what she needs.
She'd be better off with fewer eggs and more juice.
The fewer people who see it, the better.
Never will they fiind him with fewer men to help him.
With fewer boys, we couldn't carry it all anyway.
Well, there were fewer of them. ten or twelve.
Mm. Fewer things in life give a man more pleasure than hunting.
In each generation, fewer are born.
And of those, fewer live.
Do you want fewer strikes?
Then there are fewer risks.
News and current affairs
The European Union should stop trying to do everything and concentrate on doing fewer things more effectively.
We can, however, decrease their frequency; we can make them shallower; we can ensure that fewer people are hurt and that those that get hurt are better protected.
Despite dramatically falling crime rates over the last ten years (which most criminologists attribute more to demography - there have simply been fewer young men of late - than incarceration), prison populations have continued to soar.
A smoother international distribution of power, even in a global system that is less than fully democratic, would pose fewer temptations to abandon the prudent exercise of power.
Other countries log far fewer viewing hours.
Since the terrorist attacks of September 2001, entry visas are fewer and more difficult to obtain, stanching the flow of young talent into US universities.
In principle, the Commission ought to be slimmed down after enlargement, with fewer Commissioners than member states.
As time passes, there are fewer and fewer outstanding bonds that do not contain CACs.
Most people saw the consolidation of smaller firms into fewer, large firms as a stabilizing development that rewarded success and allowed for further productive investment.
Trade-offs also pervade environmental policy: Cutting more of one pollutant, for example, leaves fewer resources to address other issues.
Today, the average South Korean has 12 years of education, whereas the average Pakistani has fewer than six.
Although global warming will create costs stemming from more heat-related deaths and water stress, they will be outweighed by the benefits from many fewer cold-related deaths and higher agricultural productivity from higher levels of CO2.
Moreover, at younger ages, there are fewer cultural barriers to education for girls, and there is less pressure for children to contribute labor.
My household uses CFLs, and I enjoy knowing that I am causing fewer CO2 emissions and spending less money.
Should we ban private cars wherever public transport is available to move us from A to B with fewer CO2 emissions?
A decade ago, fewer than 10,000 people were taking the new generation of antiretroviral drugs that suppress the disease and offer the promise of a normal life.
Fewer Africans working in rich countries will automatically translate into less money circulating in African countries.
Fewer remittances flowing into Uganda could mean less economic activity - or simply lower prices.
Efficiency dictates the use of fewer and larger currencies (and foreign investors, understandably wary of weak and volatile currencies, demand it).
Meanwhile, the Federal Reserve's unusual activism, including an ever-expanding list of experimental measures, will yield fewer benefits and entail growing costs and risks.
Or interest rates could rise if people expect a much weaker global economy - and, in a weaker global economy with no inflation, investors should be holding more US Treasuries, not fewer.
It is widely understood today that free-trade agreements (FTAs), whether bilateral or plurilateral (among more than two countries but fewer than all) are built on discrimination.
In 2005, the 17 countries of the Arab world together produced 13,444 scientific publications, fewer than the 15,455 achieved by Harvard University alone.
Other countries log far fewer viewing hours. In Scandinavia, for example, time spent watching TV is roughly half the US average.
The best study shows that by 2050, heat will claim 400,000 more lives, but 1.8 million fewer will die because of cold.
With more children surviving to adulthood, poor families are choosing to have fewer children, and to invest more in their health and education.
His last demand - fewer benefits for EU migrants - will be the hardest for EU leaders to accept.
India, for example, has 525 million mobile phone users and fewer than 150 million people with Internet access, so using mobile-phone technology as a tool of e-governance has become vital.