Sentence examples for fewer means from inspiring English sources

Other would-be suitors have fewer means, but no less ardor.

less means smaller in quantity, eg less money; fewer means smaller in number, eg fewer coins.

Within the W.T.O., Moscow will have fewer means to support inefficient industries against competition from abroad.

This may seem unnecessary, unfair or worse to parents with fewer means and just as many concerns about their children's futures.

In "On Liberty," he writes, "Society can and does execute its own mandates: and... it leaves fewer means of escape, penetrating much more deeply into the details of life, and enslaving the soul itself".

He owns department stores in London and is a man of considerable self-made wealth and his only daughter a worthy catch for a man, such as Charles, of greater class but fewer means.

Statistically, there were fewer mean interventions for ICP control in patients with mean serum sodium > 145 mEq/l.

18 Female doctors had fewer mean (SD) years of practice experience than male doctors (11 (7.9) years versus 17 (9.6) years).

Sekeletu had no cattle when he became king, meaning that he had few means of dispensing patronage to supporters.

We must repeat the mantra that the greed of a few means prosperity for all.

Then governments had few means other than gunboats to settle their differences.