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There were six options for frequency of brushing teeth for the laypersons – not at all, once in a month or less, few times (3-4) a month, once a week, once daily, and two or more times a week.
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"These are practices that do more with less – fewer chemicals, less diesel, fewer seeds – and it has a very big impact on the environment.
DRIVING less — fewer miles or smaller vehicles — is the rational response to higher fuel prices.
For tenants, it would simply mean less: fewer activities and fewer places to socialize and take their children.
Hayes is good enough that we want from him even more, which may mean, in his case, even less: fewer turns of mind, fewer formal tricks and contrivances.
Other creativity methods were used much less (fewer than 6 times).
If the head of a household has a high school degree or less, fewer than 10% of homes for sale are affordable in San Francisco, New York, and Los Angeles.
Clearly, the purists have botched the "less-fewer" distinction.
Like many dubious rules of usage, the less-fewer distinction has a smidgen of validity as a pointer of style.
Few men have been less mourned, few legal documents more adored.
"It translates into less food, fewer blankets, fewer medicines, less clean water".
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