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The first known suggestion that fewer should be used in place of less, in Robert Baker's 1770 Remarks on the English Language [1]. Fewer versus less is a debate in English grammar about the appropriate use of these two determiners.
Fewer than half of Americans in a new poll say they trust President Trump or his health-related nominees to make recommendations on the nation’s pressing health care issues. The latest KFF ...
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Less than half of Americans said their opinion of President-elect Trump is favorable, according to a recent poll. In a Reuters/Ipsos poll, about 41 percent stated their opinion of the president ...
Fewer than half of parents think children should know how to use books correctly before starting primary school, a survey has suggested. Only three in four (76%) parents think children should be ...
A majority-preservation clause guarantees any party winning a majority of the vote will receive at least half the seats in a legislature. [20] Without such a clause, it is possible for a party with slightly more than half the vote to receive just barely less than half the seats (if using a method other than D'Hondt). [20]
The less-than sign with the equals sign, <=, may be used for an approximation of the less-than-or-equal-to sign, ≤. ASCII does not have a less-than-or-equal-to sign, but Unicode defines it at code point U+2264. In BASIC, Lisp-family languages, and C-family languages (including Java and C++), operator <= means "less than
Experts said that if more people took up the offer, it would ‘save lives and public money’.