Sentence examples for great scarcity from inspiring English sources

Golf balls have been a great scarcity since Pearl Harbor.

Scotch this old is a great scarcity, but what kind of shape was it in?

The reason lies in the great scarcity of the type of atoms that engineers seek to enrich, or concentrate.

But the fact of the matter is that we have a great scarcity of skills in this country".

Because some men will be able to have many wives, others must share a wife or go without, creating a great scarcity of women.

"We are alarmed by the Central Library Plan, which seems to us to be a misplaced use of funds in a time of great scarcity," the letter says.

Static rules would require the developing countries to have higher rates of interest to reflect their greater capital scarcity.

When market speculators save corn in anticipation of greater scarcity, they may be punished by law.

Building in expensive areas is, well, more expensive, not helped by the greater scarcity of land: it looks like ultra "high value" Kensington and Chelsea will sell the most homes and they are also short of development sites.

Oil is now almost five times more expensive than it was at the beginning of 2002.It would be natural to assume that ever increasing price reflects ever greater scarcity.

Meeting that demand will probably require further innovations in coming decades as climate change, population growth and a greater scarcity of resources change the equation for the growers, distributors and manufacturers of a perennially popular product.