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Fewer/less
In traditional prescriptive grammar 'less' is the comparative used when speaking of a continuous quantity that is not numerically quantifiable (that is, with mass nouns). 'Fewer', on the other hand, is used of discrete quantity and numerically quantifiable quantity (or count nouns).
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