Sentence examples for longer fewer from inspiring English sources

But when the currents changed and the journeys were much longer, fewer elvers survived.

Another important parameter is the duration of immunity after the infection (most notably for influenza A which causes two thirds of cases): if immunity lasts longer, fewer cases occur and fewer cases can be prevented by childhood vaccination.

Fearing Malthusian collapse — famine resulting from the population outstripping the food supply — China managed to bring its birth rate down during the 1970s through a voluntary government-promoted campaign called "Later, Longer, Fewer" — later marriages, longer intervals between pregnancies and fewer children.

Called "Later, Longer, Fewer," the policy encouraged couples to marry later, and have fewer children with longer intervals between them.

An estimated 210,000 girls may have "gone missing" due to China's "Later, Longer, Fewer" campaign, a birth planning policy predating the One Child Policy, according to a new study led by Stanford Health Policy researchers published by the Center for Global Development.

That would create so-called dead zones where, for 2 millennia or even longer, few fish and shellfish could survive.

But while its citizens are living longer lives, fewer and fewer of them are being born.

I think people who have been here longer do fewer".

People were living longer, having fewer children, and starting families later in life.

Society is rapidly ageing as people live longer and fewer babies are born.

It means leaving the flowers in the vase a day longer, or fewer grande lattes.