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"alternative supplies" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you are referring to an alternative source of something that is needed or desired. For example, "We must find alternative supplies of food for the local community."
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It has also roiled Asian energy markets as customers scrambled for alternative supplies.
These strict controls set off a scramble among researchers in the 1970s to find alternative supplies.
Closing Hazelwood before cost-effective and reliable alternative supplies could be established was "sheer, avoidable folly", Abbott wrote.
And that's why there is a pressing need to explore all alternative supplies of bandwidth before it is too late.
"There is a value to the airlines to having alternative supplies of their most important raw material.
Weyerhaeuser, a giant paper-products company, has shut down eight of its 40 MRFs and looked for alternative supplies.
If Mrs Bercow decides to boycott Carpetright in retaliation, there are few better places than Kabul for alternative supplies.
China cut its purchases of Iranian oil this year and secured alternative supplies from Russia and Saudi Arabia.
A spokeswoman said later in the afternoon that the market had responded and alternative supplies procured to make up the shortfall.
You could even say the oil market has performed a vital service to the country by telegraphing the need to conserve and to develop alternative supplies.
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Many western markets would welcome news of an alternative supply.
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