"shortage" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

shortage sustantivo

sustantivo + shortage
Kolokacji: 49
food shortage • labor shortage • water shortage • housing shortage • fuel shortage • power shortage • manpower shortage • ...
shortage + verbo
Kolokacji: 24
shortage causes • shortage leads • shortage means • shortage forces • shortage makes • ...
(2) exist, threaten
Kolokacji: 2
1. shortage prevents = niedobór staje na przeszkodzie shortage prevents
  • 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.
3. shortage persists = niedobór utrzymuje się shortage persists
4. shortage begins = niedobór zaczyna się shortage begins
(4) worsen, slow
Kolokacji: 2
verbo + shortage
Kolokacji: 11
face a shortage • cause a shortage • suffer shortages • create a shortage • report shortages • ...
adjetivo + shortage
Kolokacji: 45
severe shortage • acute shortage • chronic shortage • serious shortage • critical shortage • ...
preposición + shortage
Kolokacji: 11
of shortages • from a shortage • with a shortage • to a shortage • for the shortage • ...

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