Sentence examples for scarce eggs from inspiring English sources

Meat was scarce; eggs, occasional.

In times of plenty -- in other words, yesterday -- it meant the inspired cooking of times gone by, when meat was scarce, eggs were barter tokens and a chicken in every pot was wishful thinking.

The kind of work described in the Nature study has also been difficult because it requires a scarce resource: eggs from young, fertile, healthy women.

But this being launch day, iPads were bound to be scarcer than cats' eggs, right?

Last month, eggs were scarce.

Breakfast This is Italy — coffees are small and eggs are scarce.

That is the combination at its simplest, a peasant dish most common in southern Italy, where the impoverished population was once large and staples like eggs were scarce.

Twice a week, Dominicans open the bridge, and thousands of Haitians rush across to buy goods that are scarce on their side: eggs, nails, flour, concrete, carrots, salami, juice, cooking oil, chickens and plastic chairs.

And the stiff punishment is not just for steak thieves: last month, a dozen people were sentenced to between five and 15 years for conspiring to divert millions of eggs – another scarce commodity – to the black market.

But human eggs are scarce, and many question whether such a precious resource should be used as nothing more than casing for genetic material; hence the desire to work with rabbit and cow eggs.The issue has been particularly difficult for the HFEA.

Studies on the predation by G. ochropterus on H. armigera eggs are scarce, and there is no information available on IGP by G. ochropterus on H. armigera eggs parasitized by T. chilonis.