Counting or Measuring?
rogersgeorge on August 24th, 2020
The rule is to use “fewer” when you’re counting something and “less” when you’re measuring something. But two things can go either way: time and distance. Usually we use “less” for both, but you can use “fewer” even though it sounds a bit funny.
The moon will be new fewer than 9 hours after the June 20 solstice.
https://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/annular-solar-eclipse-on-june-21-2020
Of course we gotta have a picture. Here’s one from 2013:
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