The situation was of great shortage and would remain so for some decades yet.

"It would appear that there was great shortage of detectives at station house tonight," he said.

So for a year or two there will be a great shortage of the true purple colour.

Now there had been a great shortage of messages from heaven for a very long time.

This attitude concealed a great shortage of funds on the royal side.

There is no great shortage of jobs in this country anyway.

In warm months, there is a great shortage of water.

The years following the Second World War were a time of great shortages.

The one driving force behind the quest to transplant animal organs is the great shortage of human ones.

As war approached in 1940, there was a great shortage of engineers and scientists needed for the defense industries.