Fewer or Less?
rogersgeorge on May 24th, 2024
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She’s counting the years, so she should have said “fewer and fewer years,” though she could also have said “less time.” We measure two things: time and distance. Pretty much everything else we count. Time and Distance you have to pay attention to because sometimes we count units of time or distance, but those two measures can be imprecise and subdivided, and then measuring is appropriate.
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