On the other hand, it brought us fewer homicides (one of the main causes of death for hunter-gatherers), a sense of spirituality, refuge from the uncertainties of the wandering life, and the leisure to develop science and art.
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In one of the most biting exchanges, Mr Obama mocked Mr Romney's complaint that the US had fewer ships now than it did during World War I.
That allows us to build fewer power plants and use less electricity.
Today, there are many fewer US and European workers in Saudi Arabia than during the oil boom years of the 1970s and early 1980s.
Fewer of us have complete video and audio recordings and transcripts of the events.
In the US, 18% fewer companies plan to hire mothers this year than in 2010.
Fewer of us attend religious services, and the core that do are more likely to be politically conservative.
But fewer and fewer of us have anything to do with such people.
As it will be when fewer of us have to do exhausting, noisy, boring and repetitive work on production lines.
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But it is a great step in the right direction and will help millions of us eat and drink fewer calories.
Malaria has been plaguing us so long no fewer than four Nobel Prizes have been given for research about it, one as early as 1902.
There will be fewer of us available to provide unpaid care to a growing number of aging relatives, and most of us will be working at the same time.
"Each year, there are fewer of us to attend this service, " 40-year-old Tatyana Lazarenko, who was evacuated from the nearby town of Pripyat following the disaster, told AFP news agency.
At a time when the agency is prosecuting as many as 60 cartels in the automotive parts industry alone, an investigation they have described as the largest in the history of anti-cartel enforcement in the US, there are fewer lawyers doing the work than there have been in decades, according to former agency lawyers who asked not to be named.
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Additionally, Central and South Asian citizens sent 12.82 percent fewer applications to US business schools between 2008 and 2012.
Amid a push by the White House to strengthen gun laws, the bill reflects a growing divide in the US over whether more or fewer guns keep people safe.
In Scotland - where you may suggest they have more than us of most things - there are fewer councillors.
When most of its use has revolved around one carrier, few payment points and even fewer phones, most of us have had to sit on the sidelines.
Federal outlays mean fewer resources for the rest of us, who create those resources in the first place.
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Fewer than one in five of us reports that we are doing all we should to ensure we will be able to live reasonably in retirement.
We could adopt an intermediate position with more than zero but fewer than five retirees, allowing us both a chance to retire and a higher standard of living.
Hospitals must do a better job of taking care of us when we are there, commit far fewer deadly and costly medical errors and generally operate more efficiently.
During one day of shooting, the 940 mAh battery lasted for fewer than two hours, allowing us to capture about 230 photos and roughly five minutes of 720p video.
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The fact is, most of us are now required to be more successful with fewer resources.
The clear trend is that banks are getting bigger and fewer, but is bigger better for us the customers?
There is speculation that the Chinese consumer will pick up the demand slack for the US and European consumers who are deleveraging and buying fewer Chinese-made goods.
And in pursuit of a venue that permits the benefits of social media with fewer of the irritants, many of us may soon switch to the next best thing.
Of the top 100 institutions 17 are from the UK, two fewer than in 2007, compared with 37 US universities.
These same people continually remind us about the lost tax revenue, which might mean fewer pay raises for teachers and school administrators and hospital workers in the Rust Belt.
Of course this means that the people paying into the system will receive fewer and fewer benefits as time goes on, which leads us to the next point.
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