fewness
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
The size of the army and the fewness of the roads did that.
From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway
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 influence of those few was great in proportion to their fewness probably, quite as much as to their merit as philosophers.
From Transcendentalism in New England A History by Octavius Brooks Frothingham
For knowledge, and literature, and every useful art, for my friends and their prosperity, and for the fewness of my enemies,—Good God, I thank thee!
From Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes by Chester E. Jorgenson
This control was spasmodic, because of the fewness of the watchbirds.
From Watchbird by Ed Emshwiller
