Sentence examples for land scarce from inspiring English sources

"The world is not land scarce," says Tony Allen, head of the London water research group at King's.

With vacant land scarce to the west, developers have turned to Wading River's wooded areas and farms to build large tracts of single-family homes.

However, with vacant land scarce in Manhattan and rezoning passed last year raising height limitations on the avenues, it's logical that developers would set their sights on East Harlem.

When Kenteris, a gold medalist in the 200 meters at the 2000 Sydney Games, a man with boats in the Port of Piraeus named after him and also an icon in a land scarce of celebrities, missed his drug test on Thursday, the Greeks were left more tormented than usual.

Alam (2011) found that this scenario is also omnipresent in the land scarce city of Dhaka.

With a small land area of 719.2 km2, land scarce Singapore has few natural resources, such as oil, minerals, and even water resources.

Some farmer associations also worry about the expansion of industrial tree plantations making agricultural land scarcer and prompting out-migration from rural areas (Rudel 2009; Schirmer 2007).

Land is scarce, money scarcer and aid insufficient, he complains.

Homes were so expensive in land-scarce Japan that families took out multigenerational loans.

He said ProLogis was also developing more multistory buildings, especially in land-scarce Japan.

The jitters and actual damage are unwelcome reminders of the tenuous ways that land-scarce Japan has continually sought to expand its habitable areas.