Sentence examples for less fewer from inspiring English sources

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.

"These are practices that do more with less – fewer chemicals, less diesel, fewer seeds – and it has a very big impact on the environment.

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.

The prime minister suggested he wants a quick end to the conflict: "If you do act early, you have to do less, fewer people get hurt and you reduce the possibility that it spreads".

The most substantive theory is that training methods have changed: because many modern races are single mile or less, fewer and fewer horses are selected for the ability to sustain a healthy speed for longer distances.

"It translates into less food, fewer blankets, fewer medicines, less clean water".

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.

Fewer bureaucrats, less corruption, fewer bribes.

µ The distinction between "less" and "fewer" is logically clear: "less" speaks of quantity, "fewer" of numbers.