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in sentences and phrases with ‘than’, you should use less with numbers when they are on their own:
His weight fell from 18 stone to less than 12.
A person with a score of less than 100 will have difficulty obtaining credit.
and when talking about distance, time, ages, and sums of money:
Companies less than five years old are the ones bringing us new job creation.
Per capita income is reckoned to be less than 50 dollars per year.
Heath Square is less thanfour miles away from Dublin city centre.
But hold on, I hear you say – the measurements (years, miles, dollars, etc.) are in the plural, so why isn’t fewer the correct choice? Not so! We use less in such cases because we’re actually still referring to total amounts (of time, money, distance, etc.) rather than individual units.
Nguồn: Oxford words
 

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in sentences and phrases with ‘than’, you should use less with numbers when they are on their own:
His weight fell from 18 stone to less than 12.
A person with a score of less than 100 will have difficulty obtaining credit.
and when talking about distance, time, ages, and sums of money:
Companies less than five years old are the ones bringing us new job creation.
Per capita income is reckoned to be less than 50 dollars per year.
Heath Square is less thanfour miles away from Dublin city centre.
But hold on, I hear you say – the measurements (years, miles, dollars, etc.) are in the plural, so why isn’t fewer the correct choice? Not so! We use less in such cases because we’re actually still referring to total amounts (of time, money, distance, etc.) rather than individual units.
Nguồn: Oxford words
Dịch ra nếu bạn không hiểu nè :)
Trong các câu và cụm từ với "than", bạn nên dùng "less" với các số đứng riêng lẻ
[Mình không nêu lại ví dụ nha :)]
Nhưng mà tại sao lại không dùng fewer nhỉ, các danh từ tô đậm ở dạng số nhiều mà? Bởi vì chúng ta nhắc đến số lượng tổng thể (về thời gian, tiền bạc, khoảng cách, ...) chứ không phải là các vật thể riêng lẻ
 
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