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# fewer

«fewer» in Mova's school dictionary: **a smaller number of things: «fewer apples»** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective, pronoun (few, fewer, fewest)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Fewer means a smaller number of things: «fewer apples». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fewer/#m1)

2) Few means not many; fewest means the smallest number of all. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fewer/#m2)

3) No fewer than means as many as, or more than, a surprisingly large number. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fewer/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

a smaller count than someone else's: «A has D fewer than B» is B − D; «How many fewer» asks for a difference; phrases: «fewer than», «no fewer than», «the fewest»

### examples

- Max has 2 fewer books than Lily. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fewer/#x1)
- Max has 2 books fewer than Lily. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fewer/#x2)
- How many fewer apples does Tom have than Ben? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fewer/#x3)
- There are fewer children at school when it snows. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fewer/#x4)
- Which team scored the fewest goals? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fewer/#x5)
- Fewer than 10 people came to the show. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fewer/#x6)
- Spiders have fewer legs than centipedes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fewer/#x7)
- Eat fewer sweets and more fruit. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fewer/#x8)
- There were no fewer than thirty blossoms on its stem. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fewer/#x9)

### note

«A has D fewer than B» is B − D. «How many fewer» asks for the difference: subtract. Trap: if A's count is given, B is A + D. Use «fewer» for things you count (fewer apples) and «less» for amounts you do not count (less milk).

### In the corpora

- [People still love stories written by people, with real experiences behind them, though some writers worry about fewer jobs.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/25-future-fears-rules/10/)
- [Deer see fewer colours than we do, so to them an orange tiger looks much like the green and brown leaves around it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/81-big-cats-house-lions-and-tigers/11/)
- [Sharks kill fewer than about ten people a year worldwide, while people kill tens of millions of sharks every year.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/91-the-aquarium-the-shark-tunnel-and-the-rays/9/)
- [Fewer than half of wild lion cubs survive their first two years.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/124-the-lion-king-real-lions/16/)
- [Ostriches have only two toes on each foot, fewer than any other bird.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/151-ostriches-and-heads-in-the-sand/9/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «fewer» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fewer/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.