scarcity in the PONS Dictionary

scarcity Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

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Most of the details about the epidemics are lost, probably due to the scarcity of surviving written records.
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Food scarcity became a serious problem by 1917.
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Every major environmental trend from climate change to deforestation and water scarcity affect food supplies.
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Their initial success resulted from the scarcity of small change in this remote region in the 1800s.
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It asserts that there is scarcity; that is, that the finite resources available are insufficient to satisfy all human wants and needs.
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Some people turned around after seeing the scarcity of resources.
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The surrender of these forts has been caused more by treachery and scarcity than by any other means.
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Conditions of resource scarcity exist everywhere in the world.
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The growing scarcity of water is a source of increasing international concern.
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Then followed at once scarcity, high prices, and if the stoppage continued, death from starvation.
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