Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget

quantity &c 32; rarity; infrequency &c 137; handful, maniple; minority; exiguity. [Diminution of number] reduction; weeding &c v.; elimination, sarculation†, decimation; eradication. V. be few &c adj.. render few &c adj.; reduce, diminish the number, weed, eliminate, cull, thin, decimate. Adj. few; scant, scanty; thin, rare, scattered, thinly scattered, spotty, few and far between, exiguous; infrequent &c 137; rari nantes [Lat.]; hardly any, scarcely any; to be counted on one's fingers; reduced &c v.; unrepeated†. Adv. rarely, here and there.