• TheOakTree@lemm.ee
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      2 days ago

      Isn’t fewer the better choice in formal English because years is a countable plural noun?

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        2 days ago

        It’s not. You can count years, but years are a unit of time and you can’t count time. Same thing with kilos or meters or liters or a bunch of other things.

        It’s not a super strict rule that you can apply blindly anyway. Money is very much countable but it’s “less”.