It said the drop was mainly the result of fewer cases of lung, prostate and colorectal cancer in men.

VOA: special.2009.01.13

The fewer feet, the more likely a romantic relationship, all other things being equal.

离得越近，越可能发展恋情，在其他条件一样的情况下。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

If you start segregating the gases, there are fewer possible configurations that because you're forcing a particular set of circumstances.

如果你开始分离这些气体，整个系统所具有的可能的状态就会变少,你强加了一个特定的条件。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

Intensive vaccination campaigns have reduced the number of new polio cases reported worldwide to fewer than two thousand a year.

VOA: special.2010.01.18

And they were weakened as a result, and so the Spaniards, even in fewer numbers, were able to conquer.

最终他们变得很虚弱,所以这群西班牙人,尽管数量很少,还是取得了胜利

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

For example,she noted that crops designed to resist damage by glyphosate need fewer pesticides that are more toxic to the soil.

VOA: special.2010.04.27

And in fact, if we count up all of these silly comparisons I was making verbally I bet I'm gonna be making fewer in the end than I was with bubble or with selection.

事实上，如果将所有的,比较次数加起来，我敢打赌,比起冒泡和选择排序,它最终的比较次数是相对较少的。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

"In general,we find that genetically engineered crops have had fewer adverse effects on the environment than non-GE crops produced conventionally."

VOA: special.2010.04.27

That was way fewer responses than I wanted. Let's try again; what's the name of this downward sloping line that I've just drawn?

没几个人回答啊,我再问一遍,这条向下倾斜的曲线叫什么

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

But even in two thousand two, fewer than eleven percent of patents were awarded to women in the United States.

VOA: special.2009.05.13

It's more obvious because there are probably fewer lines there, so that you can focus on the primary line, the basic line--the bass line.

更明显的是这里也许有几条线，所以你可以将重点放在主线上，基准线，也就是低音线。

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

Last year was the first year since two thousand four that Hawaii has had fewer than seven million visitors.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

I have found that over the years, fewer and fewer students feel comfortable calling me Shelly.

我发现，过去这些年，喜欢喊我薛立的同学越来越少了。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

The researchers knew it would be easier and less costly to map a smaller frog with fewer chromosomal pairs.

VOA: special.2010.06.29

Homes just stay where they are, so we have far fewer accidents, so they don't have to charge as high a premium for the insurance.

而住宅则是固定的,所以发生事故的情况也更少,这就导致保险公司对住房保险收取的保费,不会太高

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

The study found there is strong support for restricting work by doctors-in-training to sixteen or fewer hours at one time.

VOA: special.2010.07.13

If you move northwards along the Black Sea and southwards as well, Greek cities, not in the same number, they're fewer than they are in the places I've mentioned so far, but important ones.

倘若沿着黑海北上或者南下,也会看见希腊城市,但为数不多,比我目前所提到的所有地区都要少,但它们却非常重要

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

But they believe there is a helpful change in the way the body processes energy in the monkeys that eat fewer calories.

VOA: special.2009.09.01

The more cells I have the faster they can grow, fewer cells grows more slowly.

细胞数目越多增长就越快,细胞数目越少增长就越慢

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

But fewer camels than in the past were traded at a recent camel fair in Pushkar, in Rajasthan.

VOA: special.2009.01.13

But with fewer solar panels, they fell behind the German team on the most important requirement: energy production.

VOA: special.2009.10.27

Parents given the counts chose an average of one hundred two fewer calories when asked what they would order for their children.

VOA: special.2010.01.27

Minority children, especially Hispanics, are increasing at a fast rate while the United States has fewer white children.

VOA: special.2010.03.20

They also reported sleeping longer on school nights and making fewer tiredness-related visits to the school health center.

VOA: special.2010.07.07

Women who used the gel more than eighty percent of the times when they had sex had fifty-four percent fewer HIV infections.

VOA: special.2010.07.21

Fewer than one hundred thousand American troops are in Iraq for the first time since the invasion seven years ago next week.

VOA: special.2010.03.13

The study found that many farmers have better harvests, better weed control and fewer losses from insect damage compared to traditional crops.

VOA: special.2010.05.18

The monkeys that ate fewer calories look younger and healthier than fatter monkeys on an unrestricted diet.

VOA: special.2009.09.01

There are still some public housing apartments for poor people, but many fewer than in the past.

VOA: special.2009.04.27

The newer Champagne bottle only weighs about sixty-five fewer grams than the traditional nine hundred gram bottle.

VOA: special.2010.10.20