Possible Clues:

• Not much of a mark to begin with
• Not much of the mark of the wound on top
• Scant
• Not plentiful, hard to find
• Not seen a lot
• The car by the hundred is in short supply in the south east
• Not often seen
• What you can go and make yourself if it's short
• Few of where there was a cut to start with
• What you might "make yourself"