They function like comparatives and hold a relative position on a scale of increase or decrease.
INCREASE From 0% to 100%
With plural countable nouns:
many more most
With uncountable nouns:
much more most
DECREASE From 100% to 0%
With plural countable nouns:
few fewer fewest
With uncountable nouns:
little less least
Examples
* There are many people in England, more in India, but the most people live in China.
* Much time and money is spent on education, more on health services but the most is spent on national defence.
* Few rivers in Europe are not polluted.
* Fewer people die young now than in the seventeenth century.
* The country with the fewest people per square kilometre must be Australia.
* Scientists have little hope of finding a complete cure for cancer before the year 2,000.
* She had less time to study than Paul but had better results.
* Give that dog the least opportunity and it will bite you.
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