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Oil deposits will have become scarce by 2050.

money/water became scarce

It is the ultimate scarce resource, the one planet that we share.

A seller's market is a market in which goods are relatively scarce, buyers have a limited range of choice, and prices are high.

The violence and injustice of the rulers of mankind is an ancient evil, for which, I am afraid, the nature human affairs can scarce admit a remedy.

Records are particularly scarce for this era, perhaps owing to a long series of natural disasters which befell the capital.

And the demand for cheap produce often encourages wasteful use of scarce water resources.

University places are scarce in China and many students go abroad to study.

scarce resources

An interscise in the wall where scarce a knife blade would have gone. Good teachers are really scarce.

We need to talk to the management. We have scarce resources to start the project.

I need you to make yourself scarce.

if sth is scarce, there is not enough of it and it is only available is small quantities

as raw materials became scarce, synthetics were developed

In today's world, possessions are plentiful, but time is scarce.