paucity

In a sentence

Six example sentences with paucity, each labelled with its topic.

• The paucity of local engineers forced the founders to hire remotely, and half the team works six time zones away.

  Startups

• A paucity of training images made the classifier unreliable, since it had seen only forty examples of the rarest defect.

  Technology

• The paucity of surviving prints means most of the director's early work is known from stills and a few reviews.

  Movies

• The paucity of written records from the century means historians lean heavily on coins and broken pottery.

  History

• A paucity of reliable price data from the region leaves the inflation estimate little better than a guess.

  Economics

• The team's paucity of outside shooters let defenders pack the paint and dare anyone to fire from the arc.

  Basketball

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