Should I use 'less' or 'fewer'?

To streamline the information model design and implementation process, naming conventions and a glossary should be established.
In addition to workers compensation matters, employers have social and ethical responsibilities associated with bullying in the workplace.
The patent troll actually has no intention to actually use the patent; instead, it tries to make money by filing infringement lawsuits against other individuals and companies that use the patented invention.

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Which is correct, 'less' or 'fewer'?

Governor Macquarie had initially tried to have an inclusive colony that catered to the entire population including the natives, but this was rarely sufficient.
The relationship between locus of control and academic achievement specifically has been subject to various prior studies.
The epidemiological data focusing on legumes specifically, show inverse associations between legumes and diabetes in some (14), (15), (16), (18) but not all (17), (19), (20), (21) studies.
Agreeing with Van de Gaag and Snijders (2002), it was believed that the measurement of the use of social capital would concentrate on actions and outcomes.96 Instead, it was decided that focussing on the access to social capital would invite fewer complications in the interpretation of the results.
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Which is preferred, 'less' or 'fewer'?

In order to define the incremental value from the transaction, cumulative abnormal return (CAR) can be used as a proxy of the market reaction and the future expectation on such transactions.
According to Fareed Zakaria (1997), Liberal democracy is not only requires the free and fair elections but also constitutional protection of citizen’s rights.
It is a very delicate procedure to ensure the taste and the smell of the oil, and also to preserve its antioxidants and its medium chain fatty acids or MCT for short.
On the other hand, if frequency matters more than positivity, the company should focus on making brand more visible.

Less vs. fewer

He emotionally involves the reader/audience in his speech by using second person when describing the daily routine and the struggles of the average adult, explicitly detailing a mundane trip to the grocery store after a stressful day of work.
Taking out with him the surplus population – the Bituriges, Arverni, Senones, Aedui, Ambarri, Carnutes, Aulerci – he set out with a vast host, some mounted, some on foot (adapted from: Cunliffe 1999: 68-69).
Germany-based luxury automotive maker Bayerische Motoren Werke AG’s (BMW) native unit has declared to acquire parts from seven India-based car components manufacturers.
We can also see this idea in the American rocketry development immediately after the end of the Second World War (Military).

Less vs. fewer


Filtrate was diluted suitably to Beer’s concentration range and free drug concentration was determined spectrophotometrically at 238 nm and 236 nm for DLTZH and ND respectively.
Then again how can the community have a positive effect without the education, resources, or knowledge of what actions to take?
Where rights for older women are already scarce and hollow, the government and even the NGO’s due to their small numbers within societies often overlook these minority groups.


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