1 number

2 amount

3 somewhat

1 female

2 woman

3 daughter

1 woman

1 girl

2 lass

1 few

2 less

3 to lack

4 to be missing

5 to stop (doing sth)

6 seldom

1 three women are enough for a drama (idiom)

1 no sign of human habitation (idiom); desolate

1 using the few to defeat the many (idiom); to win from a position of weakness

1 lit. many monks and not much gruel (idiom)

2 fig. not enough to go around

3 demand exceeds supply

1 everything bodes ill, no positive signs (idiom); inauspicious

2 everything points to disaster