Sentence examples for dire paucity from inspiring English sources

I am aware of the dire paucity of films that appeal to a grownup female audience, as opposed to a mob of ten-year-old "Transformers" fans, but why should discerning viewers of either gender be fobbed off with indolence?

Due to dire paucity of such studies in Pakistan this study has been planned to analyze the misuse of laboratory facilities so that we can access and analyze the current practices of laboratory test requests sent by physicians and improve it in future.

Finally, with the escalating rates of prediabetes and type 2 diabetes in youth, together with the extreme paucity of effective therapies, there is a dire need to test new therapeutic agents and their mechanism of action in modulation of the pathophysiology of type 2 diabetes.

But paucity is its beauty.

Situation dire.

Extreme paucity has a second consequence.

That sounds dire.

There were dire predictions.

So far, so dire.

Conditions remain dire.

The consequences were dire.