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EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The scarcity of medical supplies was becoming critical.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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An independence based upon an abundance of goodwill may be found even where there are scarcities in power resources.
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Further, the justification that channel scarcity requires the government to regulate the content of broadcasting no longer exists.
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Moreover, they suffer from a scarcity of books, and from pedagogical methods that rely on the memorization of class lectures.
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The debate about the depletion of the ozone layer has been so far hampered by a scarcity of data.
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The world is entering a period of protein scarcity , the report says.