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The problem is, it's based on this half-truth: Americans eat too many simple carbs, so if you eat fewer, you'll lose weight, and even more weight if you eat whole foods and less fat, and you'll enhance your health rather than harming it.
That’s because the stronger you are, the fewer times this cycle of nerve signal from the brain to contraction in the muscle has to be repeated to lift a certain amount of weight.
Fewer cycles means slower ion depletion, so as your physical fitness improves, you can exercise for longer at the same intensity.
It seems around the world, in developed countries, people are having fewer babies.
Fewer younger working people means less tax revenue.
That’s because the fewer participants are in a random sample, the less likely it is that the sample will closely represent the target population as a whole.
Similarly, with fewer participants, each individual’s outcome has a larger impact on the overall results— and can therefore skew big-picture trends.
But it is so uncontagious that it's killed fewer than 50 people since 2015.
As you get older, the risers get shallower and the steps get wider, and you start moving along at a slower pace because you're making fewer discoveries.
That's because they had many fewer hospital visits, both in the emergency room and on the inpatient service.
Last year, the US resettled fewer refugees than at any time since the program began in 1980.
And the thing is, these places are full of students and academics who are desperate to collaborate, and the truth is that for them, they have fewer security issues than us.
Last year, American farmers made the least they have in almost three decades, because they now own fewer parts of the supply chain than ever before.
Ultimately, as we continue to engineer smart surfaces, we'll require fewer antimicrobials, fewer chemicals and fewer harsh additives, and this will make life-saving medical technology safer for all of us to use.
Every single year, fewer electricians, fewer carpenters, fewer plumbers, fewer welders, fewer pipe fitters, fewer steam fitters.
In the late 1990s, fewer than five percent of people in sub-Saharan Africa had phones.
In Nigeria, for example, the country had more than 110 million people but fewer than half a million phones in the whole nation.
It's a utility in a place where there are fewer better options to solve a problem.
His manager hired a so-called efficiency engineer, who advised him to save money by using more of the film stock that he'd shot, having fewer retakes.
He was creating a new defense system for King Minos, who wanted fewer intruders on his island kingdom of Crete.
Every year, we chase ever fewer fish.
Some pharmaceutical companies now have teams that are dedicated to designing enzymes to make drugs more efficiently and with fewer toxic catalysts.
So you end up with fewer of them than in the universe on the right.
If you don't have those small clumps, then you get fewer small galaxies.
One: fewer people on a fixed amount of land make investing in property a bad bet.
The immediately have fewer children.
Just the opportunity of coming up in the world means they will have fewer, higher-quality kids, and the birthrate goes down radically.
As we have more and more old people, like me, and fewer and fewer babies.
And that this mass extinction was taking place with very few people noticing and even fewer caring.
And I never had fewer than two-thirds of an audience hold up their hand.
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