fewness

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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

What Carver says of the fewness of the native inhabitants is applicable only to the state of things in his day.

From Toronto of Old by Scadding, Henry

Toombs, who was always looking at Cuffee, pronounced him “rich in the fewness of his wants.”

From The Brothers' War by Reed, John Calvin

Then the fewness of numbers began to tell, and, as always at points of junction between divisions, the Germans got through between the 7th and 19th, the 19th and 18th, and the 3d and 18th.

From Current History: A Monthly Magazine of the New York Times, May 1918 Vol. VIII, Part I, No. 2 by Various

The author should, perhaps, apologize for the fewness of the citations from other works which this volume contains.

From Essentials of Economic Theory As Applied to Modern Problems of Industry and Public Policy by Clark, John Bates