Example sentences for: fewer

How can you use “fewer” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Ferret: Last year, there were fewer than a dozen reported ferret bites serious enough to require hospitalization.

  • Between 1998 and 2000, fewer people died from fires in New York City than in any three-year period since accurate measurements began in 1946.

  • fewer than half of those surveyed in early 2001 had tried to calculate how much they need to save.

  • Specifically, Celera uses a different strategy for assigning SNPs in the mouse genome and the SNP database makes very conservative SNP predictions; fewer than half of the SNPs we identified in silico and verified by in-house sequencing are in the SNP database.

  • I had thought that Ms Fox's presentation would be viewed by the general public as noncontroversial as well, but I was mistaken: The letters column last week had no fewer than six angry letters, calling us "intellectual diddlers" and "well-paid academic theorists" who "confine" our "victims to minimum-wage jobs."


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