"shortage" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- During shortages of grain cars in the early 1970's, crops rotted in the fields for lack of transport.
- Coffee supplies in domestic warehouses - the industry's cupboard, in effect, during shortages - are already at 20-year lows.
- The price of aluminum typically ranges from 60 to 80 cents a pound but sometimes jumps as high as $1.50 a pound during shortages.
- Energy supply: to maintain a fair distribution of fuel and electricity during shortages.
- These programs were aimed at city folk, teaching them how to grow food during shortages by buying Burpee seeds.
- In addition the alliance system had residual communal rights, sharing exchanges during shortages as well as certain distributive exchanges.
- The agencies also supplied stamps to Bahrain until 1960; and to Kuwait during shortages in 1951-1953.
- Often, during the communist period in Poland the grain beverages served as substitute of coffee during perpetual shortages.
- During shortages of candles, they light the afegags using again spent oil.
- California's government mandates use of a less polluting oxygenated blend that is rarely produced elsewhere, making it difficult to import gasoline during shortages.
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