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Перевод: scarce

[прилагательное]
недостаточный; скудный; редкий; дефицитный; редко встречающийся;
[наречие]
едва; с трудом; едва ли; вряд ли; только что; как только

Тезаурус:

1. Together they are a vital, but a very scarce resource: police centralisation, of which the Federation disapproves, could help optimise the use of available talent.
2. The picture forming in his mind was clearer, more distinct, though he could scarce believe it.
3. In most groups studied in detail, a few species are extremely abundant and many are scarce.
4. At the moment protein A is so scarce it costs between 5 and 10 a milligram.
5. More long-term data are scarce, but evidence suggests compliance may be maintained for at least four years with good blood pressure control and improved cardiovascular risk in non-diabetics (Dodson et al, 1982, 1985).
6. Water was so scarce that lawn-sprinkling in the suburbs became a criminal offence.
7. For example, the choice of which among several patients should receive a scarce resource is not best tackled in the hurly-burly of political debate; but the ethical ground rules which should guide such a choice may well be the product of such debate initially.
8. Because food resources are scarce in the depths, animals are correspondingly thin on the ground.
9. Here the loess is thick, timber is scarce and agricultural land is heavily exploited.
10. Status. - Scarce winter visitor.
11. Soil life is scarce and burrowing earthworms absent.
12. Status. - Scarce and local breeding species; common winter visitor and passage migrant.
13. Unfortunately, he failed to recognise that it was the same as red iron ore, an abundant and in expensive material, Instead, he thought it was scarce - and consequently expensive - being obtainable only from a particular treatment of iron itself.