Sentence examples for scarce by from inspiring English sources

If spectrum were scarce by some law of nature, they argue, selling licences would certainly be the best solution.

About half of China's 657 cities are considered water scarce or severely water scarce by UN measures, and another half fail to reach national standards for flood prevention.

The Arabs and non-Arabs compete for water and forage, made scarce by environmental degradation and the spread of the desert.

Home loans, already scarce by normal standards, dried up as the impact of the Lehman Brothers collapse spiraled through the credit market.

When the couple adopted a dog, Boris turned more finicky and "made himself scarce by staying elevated, up in his cat tree," Ms. Davis said.

Mr. Martin said that though his parents indulged him when funds were scarce by giving him money to buy comic books and paperbacks, he also supplied his own tales.

But they are becoming scarcer by the minute.

Food, water, heating, security and hope are becoming luxuries, scarcer by the day.

But now buy-to-let loans are becoming scarcer by the day, interest costs are soaring and tenants are struggling with the rent.

With space made scarcer by designers staking out a greater share of the automotive real estate for passengers, the W engines could also muscle in on the V-8 engine's traditional position in the pecking order of under-hood prestige.

Their empty stomachs filled their thoughts instead as food in the village grew scarcer by the day.