"shortage" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- A shortage of funds prevents some promising technologies from being widely promoted.
- Engineers were sent to investigate the possibility, but shortage of technology and money prevented the project from starting.
- Grant would have sent more troops, but a shortage of available transports prevented him from doing so.
- "This shortage is preventing people from getting the vaccine."
- Mr. Nagle suggested that a shortage of labor, not hard times, was preventing more job growth.
- The shortage of oxygen might well have prevented the rise of large, complex animals.
- Plans were made, but the shortage of steel prevented the project from being constructed.
- By 2007, the shortage of staff was preventing the teaching and examination of some programmes.
- Even so, bureaucratic inefficiencies and shortages of agricultural supplies prevented complete success.
- During East German times, the continued shortage of material and construction capacity prevented a new pier being built.
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