Supporters of the claim have pointed to Book IV as providing its strongest evidence, as when the narrator asks "You mean to see we have been hadding a sound night's sleep?", and later concludes that what has gone before has been "a long, very long, a dark, very dark scarce endurable night".
Stratospheric ticket prices mean that family groups are scarce most nights at the Albert Hall.
The fact that we could get so badly lost on what we had been told would be a 10-minute walk is typical of Little Corn, where electricity is scarce and most nights are reserved for board games, books and the occasional bonfire.
"I'd love to be able to get a chicken breast and vegetables and some light starch that's prepared nicely, or a selection of healthy soups," said Gabriel Levy, an executive with a digital music company in New York City, noting that these options are especially scarce on late-night menus.
I'd usually make myself scarce on book-club nights at our house, pausing just to say extended hellos as wine bottles were clattering in the kitchen and that week's offering – Brick Lane or Austerlitz – was cracked open for wayward discussion.
Whenever roos were scarce for a few nights, we had to head out in the early afternoon to hunt up some feral goats.
However, studies focusing on shorter night schedules are scarce and there is considerable controversy regarding the optimal length of a night-call shift.
On-street parking is scarce; the hotel charges $32 a night for valet service.
If this is the case, my assertion that it is premature to direct scarce resources to the hiring of night-time intensivists is even more accurate.
Not so in West Chelsea, the night-club vortex up the avenue, where the right kind of late-night chow has long been scarce as silence.
