Given a number field k, we show that, for many finite groups G, all the Galois extensions of k with Galois group G cannot be obtained by specializing any given finitely many Galois extensions E/k(T ) with Galois group G and E/k regular. Our examples include abelian groups, dihedral groups, symmetric groups, general linear groups over finite fields, etc. We also provide a similar conclusion while specializing any given infinitely many Galois extensions E/k(T ) with Galois group G and E/k regular of a certain type, under a conjectural "uniform Faltings' theorem".1 4 In a recent paper of Neftin and the two authors, a completely different method is used to show that A n (n ≥ 4) has no finite 1-parametric set over k; see [KLN17, Corollary 7.3]. We also mention this weaker result (which can be used with simple or non-simple groups): any given non-trivial regular Galois group G over k is the Galois group of a k-regular Galois extension of k(T ) that is not parametric over k; see [Leg16a, Theorem 1.3] and [Kön17, Theorem 2.2]. 5 i.e., if there exists no k-regular Galois extension of k(T ) with Galois group G. 6 Replace T − t 0 by 1/T if t 0 = ∞. 7 One has r = 0 if and only if G is trivial.