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scarce English

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scarce Adjective

— If something is scarce, then there is almost nothing to very little left. Scientists predict that there will be a scarce supply of oil in the next fifty years.

scarce

— adverb (= barely, hardly, just, scarcely) only a very short time before they could barely hear the speaker we hardly knew them just missed being hit had scarcely rung the bell when the door flew open would have scarce arrived before she would have found some excuse to leave — W.B.Yeats — adjective deficient in quantity or number compared with the demand fresh vegetables were scarce during the drought

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scarce English » English

rare scanty few sparse scant poor thin meager uncommon limited insufficient in short supply seldom little infrequent barely unusual skimpy scarcely rarely precious meagre just hardly small slight short not often lean lacking gaunt deficient costly wanting very rare venial vanish vacancy unsuitable unfit uneath trifling tight thinlyscattered hair subtle spare slender skinny scattered scarcity

Topics scarce topics

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Examples scarce examples

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Simple sentences

Gasoline is scarce around here.

Time is scarce.

Food is still scarce in the region.

Water is scarce in this area.

Rain is scarce in this country.

Oil is scarce in this country.

Good quality fruit is scarce in the winter and it costs a lot.

Scarce are the people learning Interlingua.

Meat's scarce.

I've lived most of my life in the plains where trees and hills are scarce.

Work was scarce.

Telephone booths are as scarce as hen's teeth around here.

Records are particularly scarce for this era, perhaps owing to a long series of natural disasters which befell the capital.

The trees were very scarce.

Is food scarce around here?

Apples are scarce this year.

If food is so scarce, then why hasn't Gandhi died yet?

Movie subtitles

And good boots are scarce.

Get back on the Peensie Bell and make yourself scarce.

In summer, water in scarce.

The way is hard and footwear is scarce.

Yeah. Blonds are scarce around here.

Make yourself real scarce.

Someday, they may be scarce.

I don't care how scarce they are.

Food is pretty scarce, though. - Mr Quentin Reynolds?

Step out in the alley and make myself scarce.

Because it's scarce.

It's scarce enough in the islands.

At your portrait she scarce deigned a glance.

Make yourself scarce!

Thorpe, you get back on the Peensie Bell and make yourself scarce.

Tobacco's gonna be mighty scarce later on.

The food started to get scarce.

Cabs are scarce in this rain.

Some day, they may be scarce.

They search the scarce, leaves and grass and paw out roots.

Time seems to be scarce over here. Not mine.

Yeah, some of them are scarce.

I'll work without stopping. I'll make myself scarce in a corner where nobody can see me,. to be able to live near a. a man as good as you.

Sure, women are awful scarce.

In summer, water in scarce. The villagers are obliged to use this filthy water.

Listen. News is scarce tonight.

Someday they may be scarce.

They're scarce, thank heaven.

Wool is very scarce.

Make yourself scarce.

They go without eating when the game is scarce. And when there is a kill, they claw and bite each other over it.

Jobs were scarce for a Frenchman in London.

But the stuff is expensive. Customers are scarce.

News and current affairs

Failures of rainfall contribute not only to famines and chronic hunger, but also to the onset of violence when hungry people clash over scarce food and water.

Achieving these goals would not only improve the lives of billions of people, but would also forestall violent conflicts that are stoked by poverty, famine, and struggles over scarce resources.

Maximizing the impact of scarce resources on the lives of the world's poorest people demands tough choices.

What is scarce is attention, which depends on credibility - and government propaganda is rarely credible.

Though international funding will be available, costs will fall largely to countries, with governments forced to divert scarce resources from development projects to adaptation initiatives.

But rapid urbanization is driving up industrial fossil-fuel consumption and household water consumption, and is increasing demand for food in areas where arable land is scarce.

The market is the best arbiter of how to allocate scarce resources, and thus should serve as an economy's main driver.

This project provides a sound basis on which to measure and compare different uses of scarce resources.

The real sources of growth are not to be found in supplies and demands and the allocation of scarce resources to alternative uses, but in technological and organizational change - about which economists have too little to say.

Jobs are scarce, and the future looks bleak everywhere.

The countries on the eurozone periphery, where credit might still be scarce, account for less than one-quarter of Europe's economy.

When information is scarce and unevenly distributed, prices may well depart from the reality of fundamentals.

These are places where water is so scarce year after year that crop production is marginal at best.

The threat of depleting the world's scarce energy resources has maintained a powerful hold on popular thinking ever since the oil shocks of the 1970's.

As legions of new consumers gain purchasing power, demand inevitably rises, driving up the price of scarce commodities.

With attention and money in scarce supply, what matters is that we first tackle the problems with the best solutions, doing the most good throughout the century.

Now we think of them as claims on increasingly scarce resources in a rapidly growing world, with prices potentially skyrocketing any day.

Thailand's ambassador pointed out that using the Copenhagen Consensus prioritization framework could help the UN to ensure better, more effective utilization of scarce resources in tackling top issues.

Hollande's reference point seems to be the post-war idyll of his youth, a time of rapid growth, demographic recovery, scarce immigration, and scant global competition.

The erosion of support for the government is due to its inefficiency: inflation is triple official forecasts, and basic foodstuffs and fuel are scarce and their supply irregular.

This approach is not only inhumane, but also economically untenable: leaders in these countries should be encouraged to redirect scarce law enforcement, court, and prison resources towards more pressing causes.

We claim, as Adam Smith did, that impersonal markets ensure the most efficient allocation of scarce capital; but what we really want are markets that operate only on our terms.

In the nineteenth century, chronic disease was considered problematic in part because sufferers took up scarce beds in hospitals that were increasingly focused on treating acute, curable diseases.

Brazilian investors and U.S. banks began to take money out, forcing the Central Bank to sell scarce dollars in order to keep the hallowed stability of the currency.

But the US government's failings are matched in many parts of the world, and certainly in the poorest countries, where scientific expertise is scarce, and where many governments do not have scientific advisory councils to turn to for guidance.

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