Multiple choice

As a result of the continuing decline in the birth rate, less people will enter the labor force in the 1980's than did in the 1960's and 1970's, a twenty year period during which people born after the war swelled the ranks of workers.

  1. less people will enter the labor force in the 1980's than

  2. less people will be entering the labor force in the 1980's as

  3. fewer people will enter the labor force in the 1980's as

  4. fewer people will be entering the labor force in the 1980's as

  5. fewer people will enter the labor force in the 1980's than
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E Correct answer
Explanation

For countable nouns (in positive manner) we use 'fewer'. Preposition 'than' is the correct usage as this sentence is the case of comparison.

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