1 number

2 amount

3 somewhat

1 few

2 less

3 to lack

4 to be missing

5 to stop (doing sth)

6 seldom

1 many

2 a lot

3 not few

1 child

1 girl

2 young lady

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

1 it is better to avoid unnecessary trouble (idiom)

2 the less complications the better