Timeline for With what does ‘far fewer’ compare in this example?
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| Feb 19, 2013 at 21:31 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | @KenB: Downvote reversed. Everything else you say looks completely valid to me. It's no bad thing that you cover the more general case of far fewer, since OP's particular example is slightly atypical in that it doesn't explicitly state far fewer than what. | |
| Feb 19, 2013 at 17:18 | history | edited | Ken Bellows | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 19, 2013 at 13:33 | comment | added | user230 | My comment was too long for a comment, so I made it into a full answer. | |
| Feb 19, 2013 at 13:28 | history | edited | Ken Bellows | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 19, 2013 at 13:27 | comment | added | Ken Bellows | @snailplane This is possible, but the reason I answered that it was due to findings is the author's usage of "left to find", as in "there were more, but only a few are left". Left implies a removal of something from the original reservoir, so to speak, not a change in the size of the reservoir. So it seems to me that either we found a bunch of species (not necessarily just recently, but over time) or a bunch of species died off before we could find them, which seems like an unlikely interpretation. Thoughts? | |
| Feb 19, 2013 at 13:22 | comment | added | user230 | When I read the sentence, "[t]he researchers say rather than tens of millions of species living on Earth, there could be between two and eight million", it sounds to me like the estimates have been revised down, so the difference doesn't just come from finding new species. We certainly haven't discovered eight million species recently! | |
| Feb 19, 2013 at 13:18 | history | edited | Ken Bellows | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 19, 2013 at 13:16 | vote | accept | Listenever | ||
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| Feb 19, 2013 at 13:09 | history | answered | Ken Bellows | CC BY-SA 3.0 |