| scarce resource | 9.41 | You do not waste scarce resources. | ||
| scarce commodity | 2.44 | Optimism became a scarce commodity. | ||
| scarce worker | 2.24 | That inevitably means higher wages as employers bid for scarce workers. | ||
| scarce supply | 1.97 | Clutch hits are in very scarce supply. | ||
| scarce fund | 1.84 | And competition for the scarce funds available is rising. | ||
| scarce water | 1.25 | Both countries rely on the river for scarce water resources. | ||
| scarce food | 1.18 | Refugees roam in search of scarce food and water. | ||
| scarce job | 0.86 | Some choose to combat their boredom and scarce job opportunities by sinking into crime. | ||
| scarce dollar | 0.79 | Peace groups condemn the very idea of spending scarce dollars on weaponry. | ||
| scarce land | 0.72 | Scarce land coupled with high demand can be costly. | ||
| scarce money | 0.66 | But with prices sky high and money scarce, there were few buyers. | ||
| scarce capital | 0.59 | To marshal scarce capital, they formed grupos, interlocking financial links between or solutions. | ||
| scarce fuel | 0.59 | Drivers blame the increase on the rising cost of increasingly scarce fuel. | ||
| scarce organ | 0.46 | The transplant community has been debating for years how best to ration scarce organs. | ||
| scarce time | 0.46 | Strict discipline, for example, is more important in scarce times. | ||
| scarce investment | 0.39 | Bulgaria may give private companies a three-year tax holiday in an effort to boost scarce foreign investment. | ||
| scarce goods | 0.33 | In the capitalist world, scarce goods and services are allocated with prices. | ||
| scarce labor | 0.33 | Add in a scarce labor supply and you have an uncommonly complex harvest. | ||
| scarce material | 0.33 | Controls over foreign exchange, credits and scarce materials could hardly force anybody to expand. | ||
| scarce budget | 0.26 | The effort to generate more in-state tourism will cost a few million scarce budget dollars, Maxwell said. |