a growing paucity of content

I am an American, and a paucity of data does not stop me from making sweeping vague conceptual statements

apart from these neighbourly interventions, there is a vast paucity of human interaction, combined with an internal furore of emotion, particularly rage

In the conflict between Western capitalism and radical Islam, a paucity of belief squares up to an excess of it.

A paucity of private jokes indicates an uncool person, somebody who did not have enough friends, or whose friends did not have enough forbidden adventures, to build up that dense thicket of secret memories.