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was fewer
determiner
An indefinite, but usually small, number of.
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The other was fewer bugs.
The only advantage was fewer insects.
Fifty years ago, it was fewer than one in ten.
In 2001, the figure was fewer than 5percentt.
By 1979, it was fewer than 8 million.
The result was fewer sculptures, but I believe more triumphs.
That was fewer, even, than the month before, when 114,000 users went to the page.
It was fewer than expected, and the lowest since October 2007.
That was fewer than the 62,269 units that had been tendered as of Oct. 1.
The figure for the same period last year was fewer than 4,000.
But this was not, as Russia claimed, genocide; the death toll was fewer than 200.
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