(superl.) Not many; small, limited, or confined in number; -- indicating a small portion of units or individuals constituing a whole; often, by ellipsis of a noun, a few people.
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Fewness
Definition:
(n.) The state of being few; smallness of number; paucity.
(n.) Brevity; conciseness.
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(1) As far back as December 2009 Fews Net expressed concern at the food security situation in east Africa.
(2) It is suggested that lack of contraction in laser wounds is partially due to the fewness of m-f-b.
(3) In March 2011, the warnings from Fews Net grew more urgent , saying that relief efforts were inadequate to ease existing and expected food deficits and malnutrition.
(4) By the criteria of percentage sequence identity and fewness of internal insertions and deletions it is more similar in sequence to some mitochondrial cytochromes c than to any known bacterial cytochrome.
(5) In 2000, the name was changed to the famine early warning systems network (Fews Net), a reflection of efforts to create and strengthen local food security information systems and warning systems within Africa with which the US could work.
(6) After the 1984-85 famines, the US created the famine early warning system (Fews) to anticipate possible impending famines and advise policymakers on how they might be prevented.