1.   The removals have been hampered by a serious lack of aeroplanes and helicopters.

2.   It was not so much a case of social science theories being senseless, misguided or absurd, but more to do with their serious lack of evidential support.

3.   There may be serious lack of qualified or trained personnel, and a reduced capacity to educate their successors or replacements.

4.   The energy committee found a serious lack of co-ordination between government departments.

5.   All suffer not from exposure to the virus but from serious lack of development.

6.   For transportation officials, the serious lack of parking is making it increasingly difficult to get commuters out of their cars and into mass transit.

7.   Further, there is a serious lack of new products offered quarter to quarter or even year to year, retail analysts say.

8.   Growers and scientists admit that a serious lack of knowledge has hindered efforts to diagnose and control the disease.

9.   The article documents a serious lack of funds to pay for resettlement as well as widespread corruption and deceptive reporting by local officials.

10.   The General Accounting Office, in a report in December, faulted the government for a serious lack of coordination in efforts to counter the terrorist threat.