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Eipjoo Posted 13 years ago
Vocabulary
What does ‘far fewer’ be compared to?
We've already found more than a million species, but unearthing the rest was thought to be an impossible task.
But now it seems an army of amateur scientists have taken up the cause. A new study concludes that, thanks to them, we're in a golden age of discovery, with 20,000 new finds charted each year.
There could also be far fewer plants and animals left for them to find. The researchers say rather than tens of millions of species living on Earth, there could be between two and eight million.
(BBC Learning English)
What does ‘far fewer’ be compared to?
But now it seems an army of amateur scientists have taken up the cause. A new study concludes that, thanks to them, we're in a golden age of discovery, with 20,000 new finds charted each year.
There could also be far fewer plants and animals left for them to find. The researchers say rather than tens of millions of species living on Earth, there could be between two and eight million.
(BBC Learning English)
What does ‘far fewer’ be compared to?
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I mean, far fewer than what?
- I mean, far fewer than what?
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Fewer than the number of species extant at some point in the past (or the number of species previously thought to be extant at some point in the past).
It's not a well-crafted sentence.
It's not a well-crafted sentence.
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