"desperate" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- A desperate shortage of iron and transport within the Confederacy made this move impossible.
- But one cold winter there was a desperate shortage of slaves, and prices went through the roof.
- Food was in desperate shortage, and production fell dramatically.
- Realizing his army's desperate shortage of gunpowder, Washington asked for new sources.
- He met with little success, however, owing to a desperate shortage of funds to pay his troops.
- But the plan, hampered in part by the government's desperate shortage of money, has yet to move off the drawing board.
- Divorce procedures are often complicated by social problems, like the desperate shortage of housing in Chinese cities.
- But in Hanoi and several other cities, there is a desperate shortage of hotel rooms.
- But as they soon realized, there was a desperate shortage of bread.
- While toy sales here have hit a record high they face a desperate shortage of clean water.
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