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[ US /ˈpɔsəˌti/ ]
[ UK /pˈɔːsɪti/ ]
NOUN
  1. an insufficient quantity or number

How To Use paucity In A Sentence

  • Her enthusiasm was undimmed by the paucity of choice on the high street at the time: 'My mum used to shop in menswear shops. Times, Sunday Times
  • Sadly what he calls'the paucity of evidence and excess of speculative interpretation' is unlikely to clear the air. The Times Literary Supplement
  • Syndromic paucity of interlobular bile ducts (Alagille syndrome or arteriohepatic dysplasia): review of 80 cases. Alagille Syndrome Related Reading
  • I myself am suffering from having a paucity of exciting ideas / happenings to post about.
  • This paucity of experimental data makes it difficult to identify the ecological conditions that favor the evolution of the facultative response and of the particular environmental cues that may trigger it.
  • Our discussion has already made apparent a great paucity of large-scale bronzes compared to what survives in marble.
  • There was a near record league game crowd growing increasingly restless at their teams' paucity of decent play.
  • The last gripe is that, yet again, there appears to be a paucity of the machines available, at least in shops, with Compustore sales clerks saying they ‘can't see’ when they'll have them in.
  • There is no scheme in all these projects to solve the paucity of clean, safe drinking water.
  • With the relative paucity of decent Rankin biographies, Smith's work promises to direct more attention to Jeannette Rankin and her lifework for peace.
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