On this page you'll find 10+ example sentences with Fewer. Discover the meaning, synonyms such as less or few and how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Fewer meaning
comparative degree of few; a smaller number.
Using Fewer
- The main meaning on this page is: comparative degree of few; a smaller number.
- Useful related words include: less, few, more.
- In the example corpus, fewer often appears in combinations such as: and fewer, fewer and, fewer than.
Context around Fewer
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 11 start, 6 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Fewer
- In this selection, "fewer" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 27.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, seeing, produced, 200, people, false and cars stand out and add context to how "fewer" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include fewer and fewer, 1 1 fewer turns in, fewer people, far fewer and see fewer. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "fewer" sits close to words such as ohio, turkey and actress, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with fewer
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Fewer union members means fewer union dues, which means less power for union officials. (14 words)
In my part of the world, fewer and fewer people seem to remember Arthur Stace. (15 words)
Fewer and fewer boys remain in the villages to be picked up by big men for training. (17 words)
Women eat fewer calories and use fewer resources: When you plan to send humans to, it may be a good idea to have more women on the crew because they require 15 to 25% fewer energy calories than men. (39 words)
Fewer and fewer people are working directly on the farms and therefore fewer people in Washington, D.C., appreciate what has is done to provide healthy and nutritious food to Americans and many other parts of the world. (38 words)
She said: “We are seeing fewer people within SEN teams, we are seeing fewer support staff, we are seeing fewer teachers so the capacity to carry out these extracurricular jobs, to have these pastoral conversations, is definitely reducing. (38 words)
Example sentences (20)
The deep-learning system also produced fewer false positives and fewer false negatives, which could lead to fewer unnecessary follow-up procedures and fewer missed tumors, if it were used in a clinical setting.
Yes, that’s 200 fewer lbs than the GR Corolla, but it had 48 fewer ponies, too, and a whopping eight fewer airbags.
At this age, just one additional minute of screen time was associated with 6.6 fewer adult words, 4.9 fewer child vocalizations and 1.1 fewer turns in conversation.
Normally, fewer coronavirus cases are reported over the weekend as fewer samples are taken, so Sunday’s numbers being fewer than Saturday’s is a definite break from the norm.
Women eat fewer calories and use fewer resources: When you plan to send humans to, it may be a good idea to have more women on the crew because they require 15 to 25% fewer energy calories than men.
Fewer and fewer people are working directly on the farms and therefore fewer people in Washington, D.C., appreciate what has is done to provide healthy and nutritious food to Americans and many other parts of the world.
She said: “We are seeing fewer people within SEN teams, we are seeing fewer support staff, we are seeing fewer teachers so the capacity to carry out these extracurricular jobs, to have these pastoral conversations, is definitely reducing.
Admittedly Norway is a much smaller country than the U.S., meaning far less infrastructure investment is needed, far fewer cars are sold, and there are fewer people to convince.
But because EV charging takes longer than gas pumping, fewer cars and fewer people would come through a charging depot than a gas station.
But the reality is that marriage is broken, and one of the clearest indicators of this brokenness is the rise in divorces and annulments combined with fewer and fewer people getting married.
Compared to the snakes and ladders feel to the first-half of the year, the second-half has been more serene and consistent, with fewer peaks like the Wrexham win but also fewer nadirs like Scunthorpe.
Earlier this week, Putin’s defence minister suggested to reporters the delivery of ammunition with depleted uranium from the UK meant there were ‘fewer and fewer’ steps towards a nuclear collision.
Fewer and fewer as time goes by, it seems," Martin wrote in a blog post back in October.
Fewer and fewer boys remain in the villages to be picked up by big men for training.
Fewer homes are being purchased sight unseen and fewer buyers are needing to wave home inspections or make other concessions in order to win the contract.
Fewer union members means fewer union dues, which means less power for union officials.
In my part of the world, fewer and fewer people seem to remember Arthur Stace.
Installing fewer turbines that produce more energy per unit than earlier models was expected to provide fewer collision points for birds and more space for habitat.
It’s quite likely, though, that tools like this will result in fewer clicks and hence fewer ad dollars for publishers.
L.A. County participated in a that eliminated money bail and pretrial incarceration for cohorts of criminal defendants beginning in 2020, and reported positive results: fewer failures to appear, fewer rearrests.
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×