"shortage" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The wary old man was a typical product of wartime rationing, postwar shortages and the rigours of the police State.
- However, postwar shortages of materials made it difficult to accelerate new building.
- From mid-1947 he headed the New York office of the Department's antitrust division, where he moved against price fixers in food, clothing, housing and other items subject to postwar shortages.
- She agreed with Helen and Polly that the British were dealing with postwar shortages and privations magnificently, especially in compar- ison with the French.
- Early postwar shortages had many makers searching for alternatives to steel, including Kaiser-Frazer.
- The postwar shortages that had dogged construction were no longer a problem.
- He demanded the finest building that money could buy at a time of postwar shortages.
- Even Iraq's postwar electrical shortages play out as signs of consumer health: "One reason the electrical grid is being stressed is because Iraqis are buying so many new appliances."
- She sent them food parcels and nylon stockings in a one-woman crusade to ameliorate Britain's postwar shortages.
- Simultaneously, a decline in rail travel began as initial postwar shortages of automobiles ended.
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