"grave" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- I read with interest, but no surprise, the Nov. 28 article "Not Enough Substitute Teachers to Go Around," about the grave shortage of substitute teachers.
- This, Birley remarked, despite the "mounting political crisis at home" and the grave shortage of equipment and clothing "in rationed and straitened Britain".
- The exodus has already created a grave shortage of medical services in East Germany, and Bonn has allotted some $200 million for emergency aid.
- An increasingly industrial Catalonia had to contend with a grave shortage of energy resources and the weakness of the domestic Spanish market.
- In February 2006 the school had problems feeding its students due to a grave shortage of mealie meal.
- In the South West Pacific, the Army found that its force structure was completely unbalanced, with a preponderance of operational units and a grave shortage of logistical units.
- XI On the spur of the moment one day, based on two considerations, I made my first command decision: good winds during patrol and a grave shortage of supplies.
- Despite these figures, grave shortages persisted.
- Moreover, the stringent regulation requiring mothers to go to work when their newborn children are 6 weeks old has created a grave shortage of child care slots for infants.
- Ms. Santillán's plight underscored a debate in about the ethics of risky second-transplant operations at a time of grave shortages of human organs.
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