When to use less or fewer with percentages and fractions It can be tricky to determine whether a percentage or fraction is singular or plural, and therefore whether to use, for example,less than half or fewer t
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Baby pandas weigh less than 200 grams at birth. Even though the pandas’ weight is countable (and in fact we did count it, in grams), it would seem awkward to write, “Baby pandas weigh fewer than 200 grams at birth.” Less vs. fewer and percentages Determining whether percentages repres...
Fontana Unified School District, which had more than 80% students of color and more than 92% of its children qualifying for free or reduced-price lunch, invested just $450 per student in buildings during those five years. Etiwanda Schools, just one district to the west and with fewer studen...
MONDAY, Sept. 28, 2020 (Healthday News) -- Less than 10 percent of Americans have antibodies to COVID-19 in their systems, a new U.S. study finds. The percentages varied by region -- averaging 3.5% in the West to 27% in the Northeast, according to researchers at Stanford University...
fruit by reducing valve tip growth (Extended Data Fig.3a,b). These data suggest that maintenance of cell division is required to shape the apical part of the fruit. Consistent with this idea, fruits at stage 13 were more affected by FVP than those at stage 14 (Extended Data Fig.3c–e)...
trichopoda into five categories: “Missing” with F index equal to 0; “Less than average” with F index greater than 0 but less than or equal to 0.45; “Around average (less)” with F index greater than 0.45 but less than or equal to 0.5; “Around average (greater)” with F index...
At their inception in the 1940 s, many child-benefit schemes in Europe were first targeted exclusively to families with two or more children. Eligibility was later expanded to all families, regardless of the number of children, but larger families kept receiving more generous payments than one-...
“We also asked our respondents with cloud security experience how often they encountered improperly configured or insecure cloud/IaaS assets,” Bromiley said. “There’s an even split between ‘half the time’ and ‘more often than not.’ It’s only small percentages at either en...
The dramatic increase in family planning use, combined with increased access to public health and modern medicine, caused fertility to decline much more rapidly in the less-developed countries than it had during the fertility transition in the more-developed countries. Organized family planning programs...