Word: fewer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...candidates want to limit the number of people involved. I want to create more committees with fewer people and have representatives from every student angle--from student groups, House life and academics," Dominguez says. "We need to start at the base and build a new government from the council, making it stronger, more efficient and legitimate...
...impoverished country like India, Hari goes to the roadside vendor, pays more money for fewer vegetables because there simply aren't enough to go around, returns to his shanty and puts them on the makeshift clay oven which uses cowdung cakes for fuel, has the oven blow up on him, salvages the remnants, eats them and promptly falls sick since the vegetables were rotten in the first place due to poor quality controls in agricultural production and no food packaging industry to speak...
...With fewer than nine minutes remaining in thegame, consecutive buckets by Janowski and freshmanpoint guard Jennifer Monti put Harvard ahead66-48. Janowski drove in from the top of the keyand kissed a shot high off the glass...
Despite some highly publicized incidents each year--like the fatal shooting two weeks ago of a camouflaged hunter by a 13-year-old Wisconsin boy who mistook him for a squirrel--hunting's defenders point out that the sport is one of the safest outdoor activities, with fewer casualties than climbing or boating, for example...
When charities start hitting you up for money over the holidays, don't be too quick to write a check. That may sound like advice from Scrooge, but it comes from the American Association of Retired Persons. Last week its report on charity fraud showed that fewer than half of donors were confident that the organizations they supported were legitimate. Phony charities take in $1 billion a year, so before you give, check a group's credentials with your state attorney general...