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Example sentences for: dearth

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California has a critical dearth of legal services for the poor, and, as this report makes clear, it is imperative that the state join with the federal government and private funders to increase resources so that all Californians, regardless of income, have equal access to our justice system.
Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist has rejected a request by a group of minority lawyers for a meeting to discuss the dearth of minorities selected as Court law clerks, the USAT front says.
The dearth of relationship films this year may just be a cyclical thing, I suspect.
I keep writing about a "supposed" or "alleged" shortage, because the dearth of info-tech workers is an illusion.
Advances in transplant-based therapy for type 1 diabetes mellitus [1] and a dearth of cadaveric pancreatic islets of Langerhans have focused interest on developing renewable sources of transplant-ready islet-replacement tissues.