fewness; paucity, small number; small quantity; rarity; infrequency; handful, maniple; minority; exiguity., [Diminution of number] reduction; weeding; elimination, sarculation, decimation; eradication.

be few., render few; reduce, diminish the nnumber, weed, eliminate, thin, decimate.

few; scant, scanty; thin, rare, thinly scattered, few and far between; exiguous; infreqent; rari nantes; hardly any, scarcely any; to be counted on one's fingers; reduced; unrepeated.

here and there.