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Rain had been scarce in southern Spain for five years.

Mr. Katz said that corporate gifts had been scarce.

Howman said the agency was aware that there had been scarce pre-London Games testing done.

He had been scarce over the summer, but on this September night he stopped at every table, fussing over loyal customers and pretending to recognize new ones.

Many in this workforce whom we talked to are those who lost their jobs in the Great Recession or who live in communities where economic opportunity had been scarce even before the economic downturn.

But one of Ms. Sturtevant's training partners, a portfolio manager, said in an e-mail message that she had not been as diligent as Ms. Sturtevant and had been "scarce" at their workouts.

Further information on the distribution of ER tumour status in BRCA2 mutation carriers had been scarcer.

Funds have been scarce.

Such ideas have been scarce.

Sadly they have been scarce.

Criminal cases, though, have been scarce.