| This fits perfectly with our theme on the scarceness of water in the world. |
| The food scarceness which strikes Niger nowadays takes at both after the sky and after men. |
| This last component supposedly arose in response to the scarceness of Arabic speakers in America's armed forces and intelligence organizations. |
| The colour of a diamond is one of the signs of its scarceness and justifies the price of the stone. |
| When the colonists arrived, they, too, were sustained by maple syrup due to the scarceness of white sugar. |
| Due to the scarceness of datable sediments saprolites and duricrusts were widely used as defining features. |
