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

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

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

There seemed to be a great many of the attacking party, and she recalled Fairfax’s misgivings concerning the fewness of the garrison.

From Peggy Owen and Liberty by Madison, Lucy Foster

Very soon you discover that you were in error about the fewness of the flies.

From The So-called Human Race by Taylor, Bert Leston