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

Hence, the investigator is almost overwhelmed by the difficulty of his task and the fewness of his certain results.

From The Next Step in Religion An Essay toward the Coming Renaissance by Sellars, Roy Wood

They came to it almost immediately; he was to wonder afterwards at the fewness of their steps.

From The Wings of the Dove, Volume II by James, Henry

His main points, however, were the fewness of the candidates present, the probable wealth of good material in hand, the new cinder track and the desirability of doing well in the intercollegiates.

From The Whirligig of Time by Williams, Wayland Wells

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