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Money was scarce, so every bit of food had to be used well.

For some reason or other, the money would be scarce at the time.

But money was scarce, and he left law school to support his family.

Now he has gone off again, for the game is scarce.

Today the system no longer works and water is scarce.

I would have made myself scarce long before the day was done but for one thing.

They must have got up from the ground very quickly and made themselves scarce.

After that, he would be scarce for days at a time.

But if you're the law, he might make himself scarce.

It was very early, scarce past seven in the morning.

The food in the city became scarce as the days passed.

The first type of class is important but not scarce.

Medical services in this area of the city are scarce.

Probably a bad idea, but at the moment good ones were scarce.

Too often, she said, medical services, money and hope are scarce as well.

Game must be scarce to bring them out in the open like that.

Information for all but the final few years of his life is scarce.

Through all of this he wanted nothing more than to tell her to run, make herself scarce, phone the police- anything but go with him.

When food became scarce, he turned to his gun once again.

She learned to make the most of her scarce resources.

She grew up with little money and food was sometimes scarce.

They lived near water and moved after game became scarce in the area.

But such space is scarce in a city where industry has taken a back seat to government.

And some feel that scarce health dollars could have been better spent.

At sea, time can be even more scarce than access.