Fewer means comparative degree of few; a smaller number. This page lists 20 example sentences from real texts, plus synonyms like less.
Fewer in a sentence
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Fewer meaning
comparative degree of few; a smaller number.
Synonyms of Fewer
Example sentences (20)
It’s quite likely, though, that tools like this will result in fewer clicks and hence fewer ad dollars for publishers.
That is especially true for smaller budget airlines that have fewer flights and fewer options for rebooking passengers.
This is even more true if the vans make far fewer stops because they have fewer destinations among the riders.
And they described fewer and fewer opportunities to pursue stories that are personally interesting and socially valuable.
As we showed people fewer and fewer unethical studies over time, they started calling a wider range of studies unethical.
He has smaller resources than any other candidate but leanness has an upside: fewer cost overheads and fewer bills to pay.
While councillors and local officials make ever-more important decisions, fewer and fewer of us find out what they are up to.
Turnout was lower among white and Black voters, too, but by much smaller margins — 20% fewer white and 36% fewer Black voters.
KwaZulu-Natal experienced the largest decrease with 129 fewer cases, followed by Gauteng with 109 fewer reported murder cases.
And Nissan’s problem is that with each passing year, fewer and fewer people remember those glory days or what a BRE livery is.
Fewer counselors obviously means the program can handle fewer students — and that means headaches for parents like Montschiedler.
Fewer schools than Clinton received either two or four stars and a even fewer score the lowest, one star, or highest, five stars.
The Mac version has a simpler interface, fewer features, and fewer reports than the Windows version.
Fewer new U.S. workers would likely mean fewer payroll tax revenues to fund the nation’s Social Security and Medicare commitments.
With fewer and fewer deposits and higher mandatory capital ratios the banks can’t do much lending.
This will inevitably reduce new car sales even more as there are fewer and fewer people who can manage the payments on a $50,000 car.
I’m thankful for the opportunity to work in print journalism at a time when fewer and fewer editors and reporters enjoy the privilege.
Whether we have more or fewer of them - it’s a bit like asking why you have more or fewer sheep.
But lately, Fields has noticed that fewer and fewer of the children know what a horned toad is.
Fewer than half of all politicians recorded a single upgraded flight, and fewer than 20 acknowledged any hotel room upgrades since 2016.
Phrases with fewer
These phrases have their own page with example sentences containing the full combination:
Common combinations with fewer
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- and fewer 78×
- fewer and 54×
- fewer than 33×
- with fewer 21×
- fewer people 21×
- have fewer 13×
- or fewer 11×
- to fewer 8×
- far fewer 7×
- see fewer 7×
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About these examples
The 20 examples on this page contain the complete word fewer. Duplicate, incomplete, unusually short and technically noisy sentences are removed automatically. The definition is sourced from Wiktionary. Read more about our sources and checks on the About Voorbeeldzinnen.info page or see how to report a correction.