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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Fewer and Fewer #32423 06/15/2001 2:19 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 218 Mountain West, USA Brandon enthusiast Brandon enthusiast Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 218 Mountain West, USA On NPR this morning, I again heard this phrase: Fewer employees are working fewer hours... This almost always makes my mind do a doubletake. Do they mean the average hours for all employees are dropping (could indicate less productivity), or that a decreasing number of employees are working part time (could indicate more productivity)? Any ideas (not on this sentence per se, but on the use of fewer...fewer)? Brandon Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Share Post on Reddit Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted Fewer and Fewer Brandon 06/15/2001 2:19 PM Re: Fewer and Fewer Bean 06/15/2001 2:59 PM Re: Fewer and Fewer wwh 06/15/2001 3:04 PM Re: Fewer and Fewer Bean 06/15/2001 3:07 PM Re: Fewer and Fewer Brandon 06/15/2001 3:11 PM Re: Fewer and Fewer maverick 06/15/2001 3:09 PM Re: Fewer and Fewer Faldage 06/15/2001 3:14 PM Re: Fewer and Fewer maverick 06/15/2001 3:40 PM Re: Stop and think Faldage 06/15/2001 4:12 PM Re: Stop and think maverick 06/15/2001 4:19 PM Re: Stop and think emanuela 06/15/2001 7:02 PM Stop and wink musick 06/15/2001 7:21 PM Re: Stop and wink of troy 06/15/2001 7:28 PM Re: Stop and wink Faldage 06/15/2001 7:30 PM Re: Stop and wink musick 06/15/2001 7:36 PM musick Faldage 06/15/2001 7:38 PM Re: Stop and wink Brandon 06/15/2001 7:44 PM Collective Curiosity musick 06/15/2001 8:03 PM Re: Stop and wink jimthedog 06/15/2001 10:26 PM Re: Stop and wink musick 06/15/2001 10:34 PM Re: Stop and wink jimthedog 06/15/2001 11:20 PM Re: Stop and wink WhitmanO'Neill 06/16/2001 12:44 AM Re: Stop and wink AnnaStrophic 06/16/2001 11:55 AM Re: Stop and wink of troy 06/15/2001 7:54 PM Re: Stop and wink nancyk 06/15/2001 7:29 PM Re: Stop and think Sparteye 06/15/2001 5:38 PM Re: Sticks and stones may break my bones Faldage 06/15/2001 5:43 PM Re: Sticks and stones may break my bones of troy 06/15/2001 6:32 PM Re: Stop and think Faldage 06/18/2001 11:14 AM Fewer Cognitions? musick 06/16/2001 1:46 AM Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Flat Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary Forum Statistics Forums16 Topics13,916 Posts230,380 Members9,211 Most Online7,006 Mar 7th, 2026 Newest Members Boo boo kitty fu, peterreineck, Peripatetic Toad, JerryC, blvd 9,211 Registered Users Top Posters(30 Days) wofahulicodoc 38 A C Bowden 17 Top Posters wwh 13,858 Faldage 13,803 Jackie 11,613 wofahulicodoc 11,206 tsuwm 10,542 LukeJavan8 9,974 Buffalo Shrdlu 7,210 AnnaStrophic 6,511 Wordwind 6,296 of troy 5,400

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