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paucity ['pɒ:sәti]

n. 少数, 少量, 缺乏

paucity

[ noun ]
an insufficient quantity or number
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Paucity \Pau"ci*ty\, n. [L. paucitas, fr. paucus few, little:
cf. F. paucit['e] See {Few}.]
1. Fewness; smallness of number; scarcity. --Hooker.

Revelation denies it by the stern reserve, the
paucity, and the incompleteness, of its
communications. --I. Taylor.

2. Smallnes of quantity; exiguity; insufficiency; as, paucity
of blood. --Sir T. Browne.

But BBC2's series of The Wednesday Play may serve to highlight the paucity in single drama today.
Lack of liquidity, a paucity of fresh news about the Persian Gulf and the approach of year end were the primary reasons for the lackluster market.
As one economist observes, there seems to be a paucity of common sense of late.
But the rumor was embraced by the market as it helped fill in the paucity of news on which to trade, according to participants.
No award was given this year for best female actress because of the paucity of roles for black women, the NAACP said.
According to most players in the domestic industry, the relative paucity of venture capital resources in France, compared with the UK, is partly a reflection of the lack of powerful pension funds. That lack seems unlikely to endure.
She deprecates the resulting paucity of physical comfort in children's lives, and argues therefore that we should 'reconceptualise' sexual contact between adults and children so that there can be more of it.
The country moved from paucity to plethora; from authoritarian diktat with no consultation at any level to a proliferation of forums where everyone can, must and does have their say however mundane, repetitive or ill-informed.
His weaknesses are his lack of gravitas and paucity of political ambition.
The difficulties have been particularly intense for the larger prospective MBOs. The main problem, according to Mr Mead, is the paucity of senior debt.
There's a double edge to the joy of "Jerome Robbins' Broadway." If the musical celebrates the past, it also shows up the paucity of the present.
The spokesman refused to say that the underwater explosion had been caused by a mine, citing the paucity of information from initial reports.
"There's a paucity of buyers," said BankAmerica's Mr. Madison.
This predictable, if depressing, reflex demonstrates nothing more than the paucity of thinking by Labour and the Liberal Democrats.
In that sense, it should be considered a success. However, I suspect that it reflects more on the paucity of the offerings of the competition rather than any credit to the system as it stands.
He is not alarmed at the current paucity of investment opportunities.
He sees a paucity of bargains as a greater stumbling block to stalking another U.S. corporation.

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