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According to NHS England, fewer than one in 10 people who have a cardiac arrest outside hospital survive.

From BBC • Apr. 6, 2026

The authors found that more families now fall into the two highest-earning groups—upper middle class and rich—and fewer fall into the three lower-earning categories.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 5, 2026

Around 40 percent of patients taking baxdrostat reached healthy blood pressure levels, compared with fewer than 20 percent in the placebo group.

From Science Daily • Apr. 3, 2026

“If anything, we need additional funding to cover rising costs, not fewer, to maintain our current momentum,” the agency said Friday.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

A smaller number of people—more than ten, fewer than twenty—made a straightforward bet against the entire multi-trillion-dollar subprime mortgage market and, by extension, the global financial system.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis