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"Shortage" in a Sentence (12 examples)
This city will suffer from an acute water shortage unless it rains soon.
The shortage of engineers is the greatest bottleneck to the development of our company.
We are suffering from a severe water shortage this summer.
There is a shortage of money in Brian's wallet and bank account.
The serious job shortage is also affecting those illegal foreign workers.
There is a labor shortage of computer programmers.
There is a severe shortage of water in this city, so we must give up having a bath occasionally.
There is no shortage of ideas.
In 1994, there was a shortage of water and rice in Japan.
Suppose there was a worldwide oil shortage in ten years' time. What would happen to the industrialised countries?
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The admirable smoothness of the riding also reflected the greatest credit on those who, despite the difficulties caused by the shortage of men and materials, have succeeded in maintaining the track in such first-class order.
The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania.[…]It was used to make kerosene, the main fuel for artificial lighting after overfishing led to a shortage of whale blubber.
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