Most people have speech, but significantly fewer have writing.

大多数人都能说，但能写的人就少多了。

No fewer than 10 students were absent through illness.

因病而缺课的学生不下十名。

They have amassed a fortune in just a few years.

他们在几年的时间里就聚集了一笔财富。

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

说正经的, 你应该少吸点烟, 知道吗?

Better living conditions mean more live births and fewer stillbirths.

生活条件改善就会有较多的活产，较少的死产。

The depot is only a few blocks from here.

公共汽车站离这儿只有几个街区。

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

她只许自己自哀自怜了几分钟。

She finished only a few paces behind the winner.

到达终点时, 她仅比获胜者落后几步。

He is an advocate of more airplanes and fewer warships.

他是一个提倡多造飞机、少造军舰的人。

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

我得到的蛋糕和饼干比她少。

I will recount a few of the stories told me.

我要讲几个我听过的故事。

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

可分离的碳环化合物环内含七个或七个以下的碳。

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

公司的资金和人员都比去年少了。

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

这农家庭院静悄悄的, 只有几只鸡在四处扒食。

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

1790年时这个新成立的国家的人口不到四百万。

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

他仅仅几年的放荡生活就把家产挥霍尽了。

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

要想列出所有的产地这本印刷品是不够的。

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

这是一艘硕大无比的船, 上面至少载有上千辆汽车。

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

从前生活在地球上的人比今天少得多。

Add a few drops of peppermint flavouring.

加几滴薄荷香油。