Below you will find example sentences with "fewer people". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.

Fewer People in a sentence

Corpus data

  • Displayed example sentences: 20
  • Discovered as a combination around: fewer
  • Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 21
  • Phrase length: 2 words
  • Average sentence length: 27 words

Words in this phrase

fewer people

Meanings of words in this phrase

  • fewer can mean: comparative degree of few; a smaller number. Frequent word
  • people can mean: plural of person: a body of persons considered generally or collectively; a group of two or more persons. Very common word

Sentence profile

  • Phrase position: 3 start, 13 middle, 4 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Usage patterns

These patterns show short text windows around the phrase in the example sentences:

and therefore fewer people in washington 1× are seeing fewer people within sen 1× cars and fewer people would come 1× fewer and fewer people actually cook 1× fewer and fewer people and that 1× fewer and fewer people are working 1× fewer and fewer people getting married 1× fewer and fewer people out and 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

fewer and fewer 2× actually yes gp 1× admittedly norway is 1× and nissan s 1× but the reality 1× each day it 1×

Common sentence endings:

50 000 car 1× a flu jab 1× a gas station 1× bre livery is 1× is almost countercultural 1× is definitely reducing 1×

Context words

These words often appear near this phrase in the example sentences:

gas 4× seeing 3× remember 3× world 2× meaning 2× far 2× less 2× investment 2× cars 2× charging 2× longer 2× car 2×

Related phrases

young people homeless people indigenous people ordinary people innocent people older people poor people elderly people jewish people people living

Phrases around this combination

Other phrases discovered around fewer:

far fewer 7× see fewer 7×

Just before it in the phrase index:

few years few weeks few thousand few tens few quarters few months

Just after it in the phrase index:

fiction main fiction stories field goal field hockey field trips fifth consecutive

Other phrases with the same pattern

Same ending:

young people homeless people indigenous people ordinary people innocent people older people

Corpus analysis

  • The phrase "fewer people" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 27 words and is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as and therefore fewer people in washington, are seeing fewer people within sen, gas, seeing and remember stand out.
  • In the phrase index, this combination connects with young people, homeless people, indigenous people, far fewer and see fewer, linking the page to nearby combinations.

Example types with fewer people

This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:

Short example sentences

Yet I see fewer and fewer people wearing masks. (9 words)

Fewer and fewer people remember being in the grip of such wars. (12 words)

Each day it seems we see fewer and fewer people out and about. (13 words)

Longer example sentences

This doesn’t mean we are going to stop using gas tomorrow or next year, but it does mean we should be thoughtful about spending ratepayer dollars on a gas system that will serve fewer and fewer people and that we should focus on repairs and maintenance. (47 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)

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.

In my part of the world, fewer and fewer people seem to remember Arthur Stace.

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.

This doesn’t mean we are going to stop using gas tomorrow or next year, but it does mean we should be thoughtful about spending ratepayer dollars on a gas system that will serve fewer and fewer people and that we should focus on repairs and maintenance.

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Actually yes – GP appointments within two days not two weeks, fewer kids in poverty, more police officers, more buses, fewer people sleeping on the street, more investment in our towns … I could go on.

Each day it seems we see fewer and fewer people out and about.

Fewer and fewer people remember being in the grip of such wars.

Yet I see fewer and fewer people wearing masks.

And Nissan’s problem is that with each passing year, fewer and fewer people remember those glory days or what a BRE livery is.

However, there were fewer healthcare-associated infections in the UK, fewer people suffered a blood clot after surgery and more over-65s had a flu jab.

Each time a platform wrongly restricts a community announcement, this civic fabric weakens, with fewer people honoring American veterans, fewer relationships among neighbors, and less common understanding at a time of growing polarization.

The fact that this could happen in an era when fewer and fewer people actually cook from scratch marks a trend that is almost countercultural.

Think of Venezuela like one big factory where the societal assembly line no longer works - partly because there are fewer and fewer people to run it.

Umpiring as a whole is in a bit of a bind, with fewer and fewer people turning out to referee games, and not just baseball, but in other sports as well.

That's because a huge number of people from the baby boomer generation are currently entering retirement, meaning both fewer people paying into the pot and more people taking out.

He noted that more people in Cranford currently use public transportation, fewer people drive to work, and there is an increase in people who work from home.

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