| Due to the scarceness of datable sediments saprolites and duricrusts were widely used as defining features. |
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| Munificence relates to the scarceness of environment resources that support firm growth in a given industry. |
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| When the colonists arrived, they, too, were sustained by maple syrup due to the scarceness of white sugar. |
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| This last component supposedly arose in response to the scarceness of Arabic speakers in America's armed forces and intelligence organizations. |
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| Parenthetically, note that the rarity of the examples here presented does not imply the scarceness of the custom. |
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| The colour of a diamond is one of the signs of its scarceness and justifies the price of the stone. |
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| In this case, it is road space which is scarce so one could say that this scarceness must be translated into higher prices. |
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| This movement has, however, slowed over the past 2 to 3 years, due to the increasing scarceness of potential targets. |
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| This fits perfectly with our theme on the scarceness of water in the world. |
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| The food scarceness which strikes Niger nowadays takes at both after the sky and after men. |
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| Fast it became clear that space scarceness and a rapidly rising number of patient required a new building. |
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| The scarceness of wood and some spectacular fires in the past centuries have discouraged the locals from using wood as a building material. |
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| They stand out as much for their scarceness as for their datedness, and they barely have punchlines. |
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| The embargo imposed on Burundi since 1996 and the scarceness of foreign currency led to pauperization of the population as well as to a lack of investment in new projects. |
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| Scholarly handling of the Celtic languages has been rather argumentative owing to scarceness of primary source data. |
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| The scarceness of boxwood and the anxiety to find new colourful sounds, has led to craftsmen looking for noble exotic woods such as Cocobolo, Lignum Vitae or Granadilla. |
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