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paucity
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  • The carriers' men were able to supplement the paucity of the written words with a few more details.  (source)
    paucity = shortage (insufficient in quantity)
  • Glebnikov let his sentence trail off, not to imply the paucity of what he could do for the Count, but rather to suggest the abundance.†  (source)
  • With age there comes a paucity of stamina.†  (source)
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  • No doubt there are plenty of reasons for the relative paucity of football research, but a big one is that inquiring minds have been discouraged by the messiness of the game.†  (source)
  • Given the paucity of Luna's so-called atmosphere.†  (source)
  • There's a real paucity of women.†  (source)
  • It was an error; but ought not the paucity of this intelligence to be taken into consideration?†  (source)
  • We often neglect the influence of the freedman before the war, because of the paucity of his numbers and the small weight he had in the history of the nation.†  (source)
  • Any inward debate Lydgate had as to the consequences of this engagement which had stolen upon him, turned on the paucity of time rather than of money.†  (source)
  • Honor becomes fantastical in proportion to the peculiarity of the wants which it denotes, and the paucity of the men by whom those wants are felt; and it is because it denotes wants of this kind that its influence is great.†  (source)
  • The root of the problem is believed to be a paucity of oxygen, compounded by high pressure in the pulmonary arteries, causing the arteries to leak fluid into the lungs.  (source)
    paucity = an insufficient amount
  • The Union is a great republic in extent, but the paucity of objects for which its Government provides assimilates it to a small State.†  (source)
  • After seven Everest expeditions, he explained, he'd finetuned a remarkably effective acclimatization Plan that would enable us to adapt to the paucity of oxygen in the atmosphere.†  (source)
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