Sentence examples for scarce before from inspiring English sources

Services were scarce before, and now they're completely overwhelmed with people who lost their homes".

Data on trafficking was scarce before the earthquake, with many cases going unreported, and there is no comprehensive recording system in place.

The cycle, for Decca, was crucial to the installation of Shostakovich's music into the western repertoire, from which he had been inexplicably scarce before the 1970s.

After all, Afghan insurgents in North Waziristan seem to have had ample time to make themselves scarce before the operation began.

And that – and I'm almost done – is before the generous 22-month gestation period in which nature allows the father to make himself scarce before the 10 years of parenting starts.

Instrumental inclination data are scarce before AD 1750, and perhaps approximate given the rudimentary design of instruments used at that time (see illustration, for instance, in Cabeo 1628 or Kircher 1641).

Had those comments not been included, she probably would have wanted to see the film because she's always excited about the opportunities that people of color have to participate in any area that they have been scarce in before.

The higher lanolin content of its wool necessitated significantly more scouring with scarce water before it could be dyed effectively.

When fuel was most scarce, just before a brief five-day ceasefire in May, Yemenis desperately resorted to filling generators with a concoction of rubbing alcohol and a bathroom cleaner whose main ingredient is hydrochloric acid.

In the UK, guidelines for the process are absent and research in this area is surprisingly scarce; so before we can begin to address potential areas of weakness there is a need to more precisely understand the strengths and weaknesses of current systems used by general practices and testing facilities.

The British government is, to its credit, Europe's leading humanitarian donor for the crisis, providing £50m for relief including water – essential in a country that was water-scarce even before it descended into violence.