PAUCITY in a Sentence

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1. They closed the restaurant because the paucity of customers made it uneconomical to operate.

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 Meanings and Examples of PAUCITY
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paucity
 n.  scarcity; smallness of number; fewness
Classic Sentence:
1  We often neglect the influence of the freedman before the war, because of the paucity of his numbers and the small weight he had in the history of the nation.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
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1  They closed the restaurant because the paucity of customers made it uneconomical to operate.