fewness

Example Sentences

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The size of the army and the fewness of the roads did that.

From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway

Their fewness as compared with Irish place names is what strikes a native of Ireland with astonishment.

From Beauties and Antiquities of Ireland by Russell, T. O.

The main fleet—three armored ships—on the north was thus used, although the blockade, from the fewness of available cruisers, was not at first extended beyond Cardenas.

From Lessons of the war with Spain and other articles by Mahan, A. T. (Alfred Thayer)

The very fewness of their numbers proved it, else why should they too not have fallen away.

From To Win the Love He Sought The Great Awakening: Volume 3 by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)

This control was spasmodic, because of the fewness of the watchbirds.

From Watchbird by Emshwiller, Ed