The phrase "a relatively scarce" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing something that is not abundant or is limited in quantity compared to other items or resources.
Example: "In this region, water is a relatively scarce resource, making conservation efforts essential."
Alternatives: "somewhat limited" or "fairly rare".
It is a relatively scarce mineral found in sulfide veins in Germany and in Bolivia.
That limited the amount of music that people were exposed to, making music a relatively scarce commodity.
Once a relatively scarce luxury, air-conditioning is everywhere now, in the form of newly imported cars.
Since uranium is a relatively scarce element, development of nuclear power on a large scale is expected to deplete rapidly the uranium that can be produced economically.
In one of the surest signs of the central business district's resurgence, more developers are proposing to build ownership housing, a relatively scarce commodity that could help expand and stabilize the downtown population.
The compound {[Cu bpzm)(SCN)][Cu bpzm)(MeOH)][Cu SCN 4]}n (1a) belongs to a relatively scarce group of mixed-valence CuII/CuI coordination polymers with interesting polymeric architecture.
A 2007 Californian study demonstrated, in areas where food was relatively scarce, a wider variety of prey was consumed.
This Tibetan-language newspaper was published from 1925 to 1963 in Kalimpong, India, and chronicles the most dramatic social and political transformation to have occurred in Tibet during a time when vernacular writing was relatively scarce, and a Tibetan media otherwise non-existent.
Yul phyogs so so'i gsar 'gyur me long) was published from 1925 to 1963 in Kalimpong, and chronicles the most dramatic social and political transformation to have occurred in Tibet during a time when vernacular writing was relatively scarce, and a Tibetan media practically non-existent.
Finally, a keynote by Eric Xing (Carnegie Mellon University) presented TREEGL [ 35], an approach based on ℓ1-penalized linear regression, capable of reconstructing the evolution of a gene network from relatively scarce gene expression data.
Eclipses are relatively scarce, coming a few times in a century.
