6 sentences with 'fewer'
Example sentences and phrases with the word fewer and other words derived from it.
• « Nabumetone (Relafen), for example, appears to have fewer side effects than piroxicam (Feldene) and diclofenac (Cataflam, Voltaren). »
• « It has been estimated that life expectancy can increase by one year for every three fewer cigarettes a day for a smoker. »
• « Although Alexander the Great had arrived in Anatolia with only 45,000 men, against a potential Persian army of about 300,000, the Persians had far fewer troops at any given time during the early years of Alexander's campaign. »
• « Fewer independent citizens meant fewer good soldiers, and Byzantium's armies thus became dominated by foreign mercenaries paid out of the imperial treasury, placing an enormous financial burden on the empire. »
• « While some of the early revolutionaries had spoken out in favour of extending rights to Protestants before the Revolution, fewer spoke out on behalf of France's Jewish minority. »
• « A striking statistic is that fewer than forty individuals controlled around 25 per cent of the Russian economy in the late 1990s. »