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• n  an insufficient quantity or number

• The paucity of sugar in the public distribution system has sent the wholesale price of sugar sky rocketing.
• As to the feminine criticsand there are a few who are cranky about the paucity of RealguysAbyss will soon be able to answer with a male doll.
• Your tax refund might be late, owing to a paucity of number crunchers.

• dearth

News & Articles

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• Near-cosmonaut outlines why few women in Russia's space program
  MOSCOW, June 14 (UPI) -- Sexism played a role in the paucity of Russian women going into space, Yelena Dobrokvashina, who trained as a cosmonaut but never flew, said Friday.
  June 14, 2013 - UPI
• The Science Underlying the Fighter's Chin: What Makes a Fighter Durable?
  For something that is so central to success in combat sports, there is a surprising paucity of information readily available on the particulars of what we colloquially refer to as the “chin” of a fighter. Why are some individuals able to sustain a beating that makes the events of The Passion of The Christ look like a light slap on the wrists, while others turn into Bambi-on-roller-skates if they ...
  June 10, 2013 - Bleacher Report

Quotes

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• Bryant Gumbel in SportingNews.com
  Count me among those who don't care about them and won't watch them. So try not to laugh when someone says these are the world's greatest athletes, despite a paucity of blacks that makes the Winter Games look like a GOP convention,said Gumbel.
• Woody Allen in Cinematical (blog)
  Allen goes on to praise the likes of Fellini and Kurosawa, while saying of his own features: "There are a few better than others, half a dozen, but it's a surprising paucity of worthwhile celluloid."
• Rahul Gandhi in Hindustan Times
  On the issue of reservation in educational institutions, Gandhi said, "The paucity of institutions in the nation and not reservation was the main issue."