Sentence The phrase "deficiency by" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to describe a lack or shortage of something caused by a particular factor or situation. Example sentence: The deficiency in funding by the government has hindered the progress of the project.
The truly hairless can make up for their deficiency by doubling up on flair.
The consensus was that they tried to overcome this deficiency by blitzing, perhaps too often.
He hit 12 of 28 fairways through the first two rounds, one fewer than Woods, but was unable to offset that deficiency by raising his iron play.
Recessions result from an insufficient demand for goods and services — and so, the thinking goes, our central bank can remedy this deficiency by cutting interest rates.
The pollsters talked to too few young people and then responded to this deficiency by increasing the weight of those youngsters that they did survey.
In May and June, the Yankees overcame that deficiency by hitting more home runs than anyone else in baseball.
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The bullpen was last in the league with 6.1 strikeouts per 9 innings last season, and Hart has tried to address that deficiency by adding Rudy Seanez, Jay Powell, Todd Van Poppel, Hector Carrasco and Rocker.
The actors try to make up the deficiency by deliberately acting badly, but none of them can act well enough in the first place to be interesting doing the opposite.
Dr. Jerry Siegel, a professor of psychiatry at U.C.L.A., said the recent discoveries suggested that reversing the neurotransmitter deficiency by administering a hypocretin-based medication could be the most effective treatment for narcolepsy.
If too little acetylcholine is part of the problem, then it might be possible to tackle the deficiency by inhibiting the activity of this enzyme.
