"short" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The district's 18 schools are perennially short of books and desks, and one new school has not had a library for three years.
- The People's Navy was perennially short of trained maintenance and repair techs, with the result that serviceability rates tended to remain uncomfortably low.
- The company was poorly managed, perennially short of capital and lived from crisis to crisis.
- The grain, beef, and other provisions were taken to Sitka, which was perennially short of foods supplies.
- Perennially short of cash from the king of France, Brissac held his troops together through the force of their loyalty to him.
- Perennially short of funds, the school district managed to buy new books for the course in 1994, but not enough for every student.
- The Wild West Gate opened tomorrow, after all, and Time Tours was perennially short of baggage handlers.
- However, James' personal extravagance caused him to be perennially short of money and he was obliged to summon parliaments often.
- In the late 1990s the embassy was perennially short of cash and got in trouble for paying employees in alcohol and cigarettes.
- But he increasingly suffered from depression, compounded by circulation problems, and his disability check of $1,068 a month left him perennially short of funds.
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