Well yes. But my reasoning then continued that because</> it's difficult (actually, impossible) to swim an exact integer number of lengths, ewx was treating lengths as quanta for the purpose of the comment, hence 'fewer' would be technically more precise.
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Date: 2003-11-19 06:53 am (UTC)Especially when the little dears are messing about by jumping in on top of people who are swimming lengths
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Date: 2003-11-19 07:03 am (UTC)