fewer

Most people have speech, but significantly fewer have writing.

大数人都能说，但能写人就少了。

No fewer than 10 students were absent through illness.

因病而缺课学生不下十名。

The depot is only a few blocks from here.

公共汽车离这儿有几个街区。

They have amassed a fortune in just a few years.

他们在几年时间里就聚集了一笔财富。

He is an advocate of more airplanes and fewer warships.

他是一个提倡造飞机、少造军舰人。

Joking apart, you ought to smoke fewer cigarettes, you know.

说正经, 你应该少吸点烟, 知道吗?

She allowed herself only a few moments’ indulgence in self-pity.

自己自哀自怜了几分钟。

Better living conditions mean more live births and fewer stillbirths.

生活条件改善就会有较活产，较少死产。

She finished only a few paces behind the winner.

到达终点时, 仅比获胜者落后几步。

Isolable carbocyclic compounds contain seven or fewer carbons in the cycle.

可分离碳环化合物环内含七个或七个以下碳。

I was given less cake and fewer biscuits than she had.

我得到蛋糕和饼干比少。

The farmyard was quiet, with just a few chickens scratching about.

这农家庭院静悄悄, 有几鸡在四处扒食。

The firm has less money and fewer staff than last year.

公司资金和人员都比去年少了。

I will recount a few of the stories told me.

我要讲几个我听过故事。

In 1790 the new nation had fewer than four million people.

1790年时这个新成立国家人口不到四百万。

He dissipated the family fortune in only a few years of wild living.

他仅仅几年放荡生活就把家产挥霍尽了。

In former times there were far fewer people dwelling on earth than there are now.

从前生活在地球上人比今天少得。

Qum, Tabriz, Nain, Isfahan, Kashan, Shiraz, Hamadan and Bijar are just to mention a few.

要想列出所有产地这本印刷品是不够。

It was an enormous ship; there were no fewer than a thousand cars on it.

这是一艘硕大无比船, 上面至少载有上千辆汽车。

The controversy waged for a few years.

论战进行了好几年。