noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a food shortage
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He remembered the food shortages of the war years.
a labour shortage
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Immigrants came into the country to fill the labour shortage.
a water shortage
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There is a severe water shortage in many parts of the country.
an energy shortage
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California experienced energy shortages that in turn led to power outages.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
acute
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In both areas there is an acute shortage of expertise at the Garden.
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And once again the acute shortage of materials was noticeable.
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They acknowledged that there was an acute shortage of nurses throughout the country and concluded that a training scheme should be organised.
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The acute shortage of time was a problem that everyone felt.
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The decision came in response to an acute fuel shortage which worsened during December.
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Although recently the Association has been enabled to take on some 250 full-time archaeologists, there is still an acute shortage .
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Boston employers are facing an acute labour shortage with potentially serious consequences for economic growth.
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Will he accept that there is indeed an acute shortage of intensive care beds for children?
chronic
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One reason may be the chronic shortage of funds that requires many rural schools to make up their budgets by irregular means.
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This religious ban compounded the chronic shortage of grazing land.
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Increasingly widespread use probably accentuated a chronic shortage of coin.
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The chronic shortage of currency for the acquisition of contemporary foreign publications has been cited as justification.
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But still there was a chronic shortage of trained crews.
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Meanwhile, there is a chronic shortage of funds.
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Why did this chronic shortage of rural council housing persist?
critical
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Doctors' leaders joined calls for the Government to acknowledge that the outbreak had exposed a critical shortage of hospital beds.
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Industries with critical labor shortages launched youth apprenticeships as a way to recruit skilled employees.
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With critical power shortages throughout the region, the timing could not be worse for a looming emergency drought declaration.
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Tucson now faces a critical shortage of workers for optics companies like Breault's.
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No critical shortages or gluts livened things up this year for traders in the futures pits at the New York Mercantile Exchange.
desperate
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Surely London employers were suffering from a desperate shortage of school-leavers?
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Again the desperate shortage of materials and the home-made nature of the goods was evident.
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While toy sales here have hit a record high they face a desperate shortage of clean water.
general
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This success suggested that the general housing shortage was now considerably eased, and attention returned to slum clearance.
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Of course, a general liquidity shortage can not be alleviated by banks withdrawing loans from each other.
serious
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This declared that there was a serious shortage of adequate houses in many areas, but recommended no legislation.
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But they have led to a serious shortage of low-income housing.
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Moreover, there were ample indications of serious personnel shortages in many of the hospitals of Tanganyika.
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Larger urban dioceses in the Northeast, including the Archdiocese of Boston, have yet to experience any serious shortage of priests.
severe
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Vitamins and minerals: do you need more? Severe shortage of vitamins and minerals is rare.
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Researchers said La Jolla is experiencing a severe parking shortage in its downtown area.
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When there is a severe food shortage , the first to suffer are the larger animals.
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This change could have created a severe shortage of corneas and other tissues in California, said Ward.
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Towards the end of the postwar boom, an imbalance between accumulation and the labour supply led to increasingly severe labour shortage .
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Thus the plan typically results in substantial oversupply of some goods and severe shortages of others.
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Meanwhile Kishinev is experiencing severe shortages .
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The move followed warnings that the island would face a severe water shortage if further development continued.
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cash
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Payment had been held up because of a cash shortage .
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A strike over food service in 1910 coincided with a cash shortage in construction funds.
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The cash shortage in the money market is, in this way, passed to the discount houses.
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Morrison Knudsen and lenders agree on a plan to avoid a cash shortage .
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Tulliver is well off, but he now faces a cash shortage .
energy
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A world energy shortage is far more dangerous and could even lead to wars.
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The coalition partners predict further elections in six to eight months, and the energy shortage threatens to hamper their reform plans.
food
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When there is a severe food shortage , the first to suffer are the larger animals.
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The international response to the floods and the food shortage has, however, been minimal.
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During periods of relative food shortage males tend to move less; dispersion evidently reduces competition for resources.
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It was said that this was vital to keep food prices down, and avoid grave food shortages .
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First, is it the case that hunger and food shortages are the result of population pressure?
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The report notes that a combination of soil degradation and poor rainfall have increased food shortages and poverty.
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Protests over food shortages forced the Government to implement rationing schemes first devised by the Labour and Co-operative movement.
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And at a time of frequent harvest failures and recurrent food shortage , exports of grain were being ruthlessly forced upwards.
fuel
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A fuel shortage got the holiday season off to a rocky start, and promises to cause further problems this month.
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The decision came in response to an acute fuel shortage which worsened during December.
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He had expected to get a $ 100m loan to ease the fuel shortage .
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They said there was a fuel shortage .
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It rarely suffers the power cuts, fuel shortages and subsiding roads that plague Lagos and other big cities.
housing
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In any case the number of dwellings actually completed by 1950 was pathetically small, and housing shortages were felt acutely elsewhere.
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The situation was made worse by the 1986 earthquake, which exacerbated the housing shortage and destroyed or damaged numerous schools.
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This would include tackling the problems of housing shortages and population growth.
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Because of the extreme housing shortage it's a first-come, first-served, first-secured process.
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This success suggested that the general housing shortage was now considerably eased, and attention returned to slum clearance.
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All signs of a housing shortage had disappeared by 1963.
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Moreover, the fundamental problem remains that of the housing shortage .
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These were years of housing shortage and this was frequently the reason.
labor
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There was concern about creating a labor shortage that would have imperiled the war effort.
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Industries with critical labor shortages launched youth apprenticeships as a way to recruit skilled employees.
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Despite some scattered labor shortages , however, the taut job market has yet to spark significant inflation pressures.
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Moreover, Hilti could see itself plagued by labor shortages far into the future.
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That was certainly the case in Wisconsin, where labor shortages propelled the printing industry into a new relationship with the schools.
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Wages only rise if there are labor shortages .
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Unemployment is so low that spot labor shortages are cropping up around the country.
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Wages go up when there are labor shortages , not when there are labor surpluses.
labour
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This is no coincidence: accelerated accumulation, combined with labour shortage , was the basic cause of the profits squeeze.
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Real wages had to rise somewhere if less efficient plant was to be scrapped and the labour shortage contained.
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Boston employers are facing an acute labour shortage with potentially serious consequences for economic growth.
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This divergence would be most easily explained by a rising population and a consequent labour shortage .
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The money wage increases which workers won exceeded those required to generate enough scrapping to ease labour shortage .
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Major problems facing the diversification plan included a lack of infrastructure and a labour shortage .
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However, the co-existence of unemployment and labour shortage in different places is a cost to the whole society.
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The labour shortage served to drive wages up by 6.4 percent, against productivity growth of only 3.4 percent.
manpower
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Even if there were no reform of nurse education, a manpower shortage is inevitable and must therefore be addressed.
power
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The paradox is all the stranger because the power shortage has had predictably grave consequences for economic growth.
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With critical power shortages throughout the region, the timing could not be worse for a looming emergency drought declaration.
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Even rich countries are discovering this: witness California's power shortages , caused by a botched privatisation.
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Since Glenallen Hill went down with his wrist injury, the Giants have been suffering a power shortage .
skill
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Last September the Government relaxed rules on foreign workers coming to Britain to combat skills shortages .
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A skills shortage exists and the reintegration of former freedom fighters has proved difficult, with many incidents of undisciplined conduct.
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We will fund crash courses in the main areas of skill shortage , aimed in particular at the long-term unemployed.
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The Government need to take action on four issues, the first of which is the skills shortage .
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Both ministries are acutely aware that Britain is suffering from skills shortages that could damage the economy and hold back business.
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The government, they say, is bluffing when it claims that TECs are intended to tackle Britain's persistent skills shortage .
water
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Examples of water shortages are seen in the United Kingdom fairly regularly, in spite of the country's traditional rainy reputation.
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Many years ago, the City of New York suffered from a potentially troublesome water shortage .
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Power outages and water shortages were routine occurrences.
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If not, how have people historically coped with water shortages ?
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Already regional water shortages are causing disruptions and are predicted to become the cause of wars in the near future.
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They have been warning of impending water shortages in the worst affected areas for more than six months.
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In the years that followed, Fred Eaton would become messianic about the water shortage he saw approaching.
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cause
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Headteachers began filling empty reception class places with under-fives in the Seventies because the low birth-rate had caused a shortage of five-year-olds.
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The root causes of the horse shortage are year-round racing and a mass exodus of owners and breeders from racing.
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Surely then, until Third World populations decline through national programmes of family planning, population pressure will cause hunger and shortages .
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He felt the major risk after the war was not unemployment but inflation caused by shortages of goods.
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These include the physiological comfort of pleasant working conditions and the avoidance of stress caused by illness or shortage of money.
create
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It appeared to be targeted particularly at black marketeers and speculators hoarding goods to create artificial shortages .
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There was concern about creating a labor shortage that would have imperiled the war effort.
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Growth continued to create shortages that expanded the black market.
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This change could have created a severe shortage of corneas and other tissues in California, said Ward.
ease
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It also might ease shortages on the San Diego side of the border.
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He had expected to get a $ 100m loan to ease the fuel shortage .
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The money wage increases which workers won exceeded those required to generate enough scrapping to ease labour shortage .
face
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While toy sales here have hit a record high they face a desperate shortage of clean water.
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He says the country is not facing a shortage of farm workers, according to his spokesman Allen Kay.
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Boston employers are facing an acute labour shortage with potentially serious consequences for economic growth.
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This sprawling town faces no shortage of dilemmas as it oozes toward the millennium.
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Employment Prospects Employment prospects are excellent, as the industry is facing a long-term shortage of academically trained managers.
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Tulliver is well off, but he now faces a cash shortage .
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The move followed warnings that the island would face a severe water shortage if further development continued.
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Tucson now faces a critical shortage of workers for optics companies like Breault's.
house
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This year it proclaimed the housing shortage as the major challenge to poor and working-class communities in the Bay Area.
lead
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By keeping prices artificially low, rent control leads both to a shortage of units and to landlords skimping on maintenance.
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But they have led to a serious shortage of low-income housing.
overcome
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A number of proposals both at the unofficial and the official level were made to overcome the shortage of finance.
relieve
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Up to the late 1950s this inflow of dollars was generally welcome as it relieved the earlier shortages .
report
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Wage and retail prices were steady, though manufacturers reported worker shortages and rising costs for some materials.
suffer
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Surely London employers were suffering from a desperate shortage of school-leavers?
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Since Glenallen Hill went down with his wrist injury, the Giants have been suffering a power shortage .
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Unlike the plankton of the open seas the intertidal zones suffer no shortage of nutrients.
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That's why when schools are suffering a shortage of teachers, there is a surge of early retirements among staff.
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Both Rusia Petroleum and Sidanco are suffering from shortage of capital.
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The museum suffers from shortage of space and there is talk of its contents being moved to another site.
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Both ministries are acutely aware that Britain is suffering from skills shortages that could damage the economy and hold back business.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Parts of Britain are suffering water shortages after the unusually dry summer.
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The drop in the birth rate 20 years ago has created a severe shortage of workers.
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There is a shortage of nurses and doctors in this area.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A mentally deficient or unstable individual was not wanted on the line, even if there was a shortage of men.
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Manila is a city that runs on gossip, and there is no shortage of it at the moment.
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Meanwhile job hunters have been complaining that there is a shortage of jobs.
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The accident, as it turns out, was a broken mirror and more than likely a shortage of time.
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The main reason is the shortage of real attractions.
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There is no shortage of objections to both causalism and functionalism.
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They have too few people to boss about, but no shortage of guns and grievances.
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With critical power shortages throughout the region, the timing could not be worse for a looming emergency drought declaration.