Sentence examples for almost as scarce from inspiring English sources

Although they were on solid ground, food was almost as scarce as it was on the ice floe.

If you look at a satellite map of the Korean Peninsula, the South is lit up brightly; the North, where electricity is almost as scarce as hope, the map is almost completely black.

Although Tipsarevic and Ivanovic have moved on to places like Wimbledon and Roland Garros, plenty of other Belgrade youngsters continue to shout and swat groundstrokes at each other in a sunken space that was converted during the war years when resources in Serbia were almost as scarce as indoor tennis facilities.

Water is almost as scarce in the UNMIS compound as it is for the many displaced people outside.

And they are about as scarce in supply.

For the moment, both are nearly as scarce as water itself.

Tools for treatment are nearly as scarce.

The 1993 book "Redesigning the American Lawn," which he wrote with Diana Balmori and Gordon T. Geballe, derided lawns as devouring dangerous chemicals, scarce water and, almost as grievously, homeowners' time.

The blunt wit for which Scruton is known is scarce here, but lyric suits him almost as well as polemic.

Hope was as scarce as credit.

almost as an investigator".