Sentence examples for scarce worth from inspiring English sources

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John Hawkins described the scene: "The books he used for this purpose were what he had in his own collection, a copious but a miserably ragged one, and all such as he could borrow; which latter, if ever they came back to those that lent them, were so defaced as to be scarce worth owning".

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I wish I could teach them that money is a scarce good, worth fighting for and protecting.

In Tegucigalpa, where housing is particularly scarce, vouchers worth 8,400 lempiras (about $600) are being handed out to the homeless to use as down-payments.

Whitby can also call on the testimony of Daniel Defoe, who visited in 1720 and wrote: "At the entrance of a little nameless river, scarce indeed worth a name, [the Esk] stands Whitby, which, however, is an excellent harbour, and where they build very good ships, and many of them too, which makes the town rich".

Nor are all those aims worth spending scarce public money on.

Referees are fallible and easily gulled, goals are scarce and sometimes it's worth falling face down and risking a card for amateur theatrics.

The theologians of the University of Salamanca (some 100 miles west-northwest of Madrid) in the 1550s were the first to see this connection and to formulate the earliest version of a quantity theory of money (in which money is worth more when scarce than when abundant).

On the other hand, it is worth noting the scarce presence of refractory elements such as Ca and Al, which is a common phenomenon in the case of a meteoroid with a low heliocentric velocity (Trigo-Rodríguez 2002; Trigo-Rodríguez et al. 2003).

Playwright Bernard Shaw's 1906 drama raises questions about the allocation of scarce medical resources: Who is worth saving?

However, as reported in this review, emerging evidence suggests that HIF may also be regulated at the transcriptional level and we felt that these reports, although scarce, were highly novel and worth inclusion, despite the lack of data on HIF nuclear localization or DNA binding.

An unsurprising number of the more traumatised questioned whether it was worth it all, so scarce were the signs of gain from it.

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