Sentence examples for badly short from inspiring English sources

During the last harvest, Mr. Waters said, farms were badly short of labor.

Stirring, strengthening, and edifying the ceremony may have been, yet it was badly short on surprise.

Russell concludes that the university fell badly short of its scientific and public obligations.

In short, this popular love story isn't much of a story, and falls badly short on love.

Higher prices have left providers to the hungriest, such as the UN's World Food Programme, badly short of cash.Some African governments are managing food markets well.

Not surprisingly, attempts to sell them subsidized LLINs during the years 2000 to 2005 fell badly short, even at prices as low as $2 to $3 per net.

So the railways became badly short-staffed just in time for last year's bumper harvests and the economy's rebound.

In Arizona, officials say, more than 130 prison guards are serving overseas, leaving their already crowded prisons badly short-staffed.

I'm very, very badly short-sighted – a minus 9 in both eyes – and I had thick bottle-bottom glasses.

Jackson's Tolkien adaptations have almost a cult appeal among their devotees while newcomers looking for cinematic spectacle over the Christmas period won't feel too badly short-changed either.

She leads me through to the next room to view this extraordinarily badly acted short film (a must watch for all fans of unintentional humour) and once it's over asks if I have any questions.