Sentence examples for of a scarcity from inspiring English sources

Or maybe it was the landlord's idea to take advantage of a scarcity of cheap housing.

There has been no evidence yet of a decline in addictions, perhaps because of a scarcity of treatment facilities.

Since 1989, about 2,000 schools have closed across the former East Germany because of a scarcity of children.

But, as he later admitted, the decision may have been the result of a "scarcity of troops" in the department.

We want to learn from architectures that, despite (or perhaps because of) a scarcity of means, intensify what is available instead of complaining about what is missing.

Instead of a scarcity of power, California now has too much, and the state has been selling electricity at a loss or even giving it away.

"It's a London problem and a metropolitan area problem of having a scarcity of large properties.

But one reality has dominated the city's enormous inventory of distinguished restaurants: a scarcity of black waiters.

Universities have produced a myriad of theoreticians and a scarcity of implementators.

It is purely a function of supply and demand, a scarcity of good deals and a glut of willing capital.

Worst of all, there was a scarcity of books in the country.