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Example sentences for: scarcity

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In view of this quite relevant fact--and the global scarcity of men who, like him, are tall, funny, and smarter than me--the age thing doesn't bother me.
The absence of well identified reference standards and possible technical difficulties conducting these studies might have contributed to this scarcity.
In many of the countries worst affected by the HIV pandemic, scarcity of resources will mean that not everyone that could potentially benefit from ARVs will be able to access them.
The scarcity of flatlands suitable for cultivation made it possible for a small aristocratic elite to gain quick control of the food resources.
Is aggression the same as aggressiveness , or, on the other side of the spectrum, is passivity the same as passiveness ? The first is more the state, the second more the behaviour--but how about scarcity and scarceness ? One runs into the same problem with the - ing gerund versus the - ation nouns: which sounds better, implementing or implementation, ratifying or ratification?