дефицитный, скудный, недостаточный, едва, едва ли, вряд ли, с трудом
прилагательное ↓
- недостаточный, скудный
- редкий, редко встречающийся
scarce coin [picture, moth] — редкая монета [картина, бабочка] 
scarce collection — редкое собрание /-ая коллекция/
to make oneself scarce — а) потихоньку улизнуть, удрать, «испариться»; б) стараться не попадаться на глаза, не показываться
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Словосочетания
scarce book — редкая книга
scarce commodities — дефицитные товары
scarce currency — дефицитная валюта
scarce material — дефицитный материал
money is scarce, money is tight — плохо с деньгами
scarce resources — дефицитные ресурсы
money is scarce with them — с деньгами у них туго
to be scarce of money — нуждаться в деньгах
scarce coin — редкая монета
scarce job — дефицитная специальность
Примеры с переводом
Fruit was scarce, and cost a lot.
Фруктов было мало, и стоили они дорого.
Food was often scarce in the winter.
Зимой еды часто не хватало.
I could scarce believe what I was hearing.
Я едва мог поверить в то, что слышу. / Я с трудом верил своим ушам /услышанному/.
He was scarce sixteen years old.
Ему едва стукнуло /исполнилось/ 16 лет.
I decided it was time to make myself scarce.
Я решил, что пришло время смыться.
Food was getting scarce during the drought.
Во время засухи, добыть еду становилось всё труднее.
The people were asked to refrain from baths while water was scarce.
Жителей призвали воздержаться от приёма ванн на период нехватки воды.
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Возможные однокоренные слова
scarcely — едва, едва ли, вряд ли, еле, с трудом, еле-еле, не совсем, только что, как только
scarcity — нехватка, дефицит, недостаток, редкость, скудость
scarceness — скудность, дефицит
scarcement — вы ступающий элемент, выступающий элемент
Формы слова
adjective
срав. степ. (comparative): scarcer
прев. степ. (superlative): scarcest
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It also helps to avoid unproductive competition for scarce aid resources.
Он также содействует устранению непродуктивной конкурентной борьбы за скудные ресурсы, предоставляемые в виде помощи.
At least so scarce supplies three boats lasted a little longer.
По крайней мере, таким образом, скудные припасы трёх лодок продержались бы немного дольше.
Administrative systems have frequently been criticized as unproductive consumers of scarce public resources.
Административные системы часто подвергались критике в том плане, что они являются непроизводительными потребителями дефицитных государственных ресурсов.
Such duplication would also waste scarce budgetary resources at a time of general austerity.
Кроме того, такое дублирование привело бы к непроизводительному расходованию дефицитных бюджетных ресурсов в период повсеместной бюджетной экономии.
However, economic research using MLM has been rather scarce.
Однако экономические исследования, в которых применяется MLM, до сих пор достаточно редки.
Details were scarce, and sometimes completely wrong.
Сведения о нем были скудны, а порой совершенно неправильны.
Wondering why so scarce positions so long remain free, you guessed.
Спрашивая себя, почему столь дефицитные позиции так долго остаются свободными, вы терялись в догадках.
Data on migration are generally felt to be scarce and incomplete.
Данные, касающиеся миграции, как представляется, в целом являются скудными и неполными.
Pollution of scarce inland freshwater resources is one such example.
Одним из таких примеров является загрязнение скудных запасов пресной воды во внутренних водоемах.
Like all resources, labor is scarce.
Как и другие ресурсы, рабочая сила становится дефицитной.
Programme countries are understandably reluctant to risk their scarce national resources on experimental approaches.
Понятно, что страны, в которых осуществляются программы, не хотят рисковать своими дефицитными национальными ресурсами для применения экспериментальных подходов.
Facts about his life are scarce, though.
Но, вместе с тем, сведенья о его жизни очень скудные.
It was during the war so food was pretty scarce.
Особенно это помогало во время войны, когда пища была довольно скудной.
Other members noted that State practice is scarce and, at times, contradictory.
Другие члены Комиссии отметили, что практика государств в этой области является скудной, а порой и противоречивой.
It rather competes with NATO for scarce European defense resources.
Вместо этого данные усилия приводят к конкуренции с НАТО за скудные европейские оборонительные ресурсы.
These resources and conditions-concrete or abstract-are scarce, and require scarce commodities like time and labor to achieve.
Эти ресурсы и условия — конкретные или абстрактные — скудны и требуют дефицитных товаров, таких как время и труд, для их достижения.
Salmon are now very scarce and are protected by law.
В настоящее время они сохранились в очень небольшом количестве и охраняются законом.
Business was scarce for surviving defense firms.
Тяжелое было время, речь шла о выживании оборонных предприятий.
I believe these books are quite scarce.
Но, по моему мнению, этих книг относительно мало.
As usual, money was scarce.
Но, как всегда, денег мало было.
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Definition of Scarce
limited or sparse in number
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Food was scarce during the Holocaust because many people were not allowed to grow their own food and had to ration what they had.
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The club only had a scarce amount of members since the dues were so high and the meeting location was far away from the center of town.
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Ms. Polly only gave a scarce quantity of A’s since she really believed that only native Spanish speakers deserved a perfect grade.
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After exercising every day for three hours at the gym, the woman’s body had a scarce amount of fat on it.
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In the desert, water is scarce due to the dry air and lack of rain with only a few cacti supplying any water.
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scarce — перевод на русский
/skeəs/
In summer, water in scarce. The villagers are obliged to use this filthy water.
Летом в деревне совсем мало воды, но население все равно использует ее, несмотря на то, что она весьмя грязна.
Scotch is still scarce. Take it or leave it.
Виски по прежнему мало, так что берите или нет
Because it’s scarce.
Потому что его мало?
I scarce did know you, uncle.
Я мало знал вас, дядя.
Meat is scarce. And selling venison meat earns a lot, right?
Мяса мало, сарны недурно идут, верно?
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But scarcely any blood came out. The reason?
Но почти не было крови.
Besides, you see, I’ve scarcely lied these past few days.
Причём, заметь, я почти не лгала эти дни.
That’s scarcely surprising.
Это почти не уидивительно.
And once Barry got into her company he found innumerable occasions to improve his intimacy and was scarcely out of Her Ladyship’s sight.
А Барри, раз оказавшись в её компании находил несчётные возможности стать ей ближе и почти не исчезал из виду Её милости.
All the next day Julia and I spent together without interruption, talking, sometimes scarcely moving held by the swell of the sea.
Весь следующий день мы провели с Джулией вместе, и никто нам не мешал. Мы разговаривали, почти не вставая с кресел, удерживаемые на месте накатом волн.
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Well, since the boat has been at the bottom of the ocean, I scarcely think that likely.
Ну, поскольку лодка была на дне моря, я думаю, вряд ли.
After all, this old crock is scarcely likely to make it.
В конце концов, этот старый горшок вряд ли в состоянии сделать это.
But it’s scarcely what you call progress.
Но вряд ли это назовёшь прогрессом.
If he had murdered Lord Bullingdon Barry could scarcely have been received with more coldness and resentment that now followed him in town and country.
Если бы он убил лорда Буллингдона вряд ли Барри встретил бы больше холодности и неприятия чем видел теперь и в городе, и вне города.
A man in red breeches could scarcely be considered… an inconspicuous conspirator.
Человека в красных штанах вряд ли можно принять за коварного заговорщика, мадам.
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They’re collecting a particular kind of clay that contains vital minerals scarce in their natural diet.
Вот что, слоны собирают глину особого сорта. Она содержит важные минералы, которых не хватает в обычной диете слонов.
In desperate situations when the food supplies are scarce, squirrels will eat almost anything, including human flesh.
В безвыходном положении, когда не хватает продовольствия, белки едят почти все, в том числе человеческую плоть.
Donor lungs are scarce.
Донорских легких не хватает.
Food is scarce.
Еды не хватает.
The plague, it has made food scarce, as you can imagine.
Чума, из-за неё не хватает еды, ты об этом, естественно, знаешь.
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If you want to ditch this girl, then make yourself scarce.
Если хочешь порвать с этой девченкой, просто исчезни.
Well, then make yourself scarce.
Тогда исчезни.
— Make yourself scarce…
Исчезни…
And afterwards, please make yourself scarce.
И потом, пожалуйста, исчезни.
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Prey animals are scarce and there’s no concealing vegetation.
Животные скудны, и нет никакой маскирующей растительности.
Oil and grain are scarce, prices are high.
Запасы масла и зерна скудны, а цены высоки.
Plunder has been scarce since Tucumcari.
Трофеи были скудны со времён Тукумкари.
Details are scarce, but it appears that Senator Ellen Nadeer’s office was ground zero in an explosion that looks deliberately set.
Детали скудны, но похоже офис Сенатора Надира был уничтожен взрывом, который был подстроен.
Not that food was scarce.
чтобы еда была совсем скудной.
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But it’s her place, so all I can do is make myself scarce.
Но это ее место, так что все, что я могу скрыться.
With a face like that, you should beinsecurity. Best make myself scarce, then.
Мне, пожалуй, лучше скрыться.
I think you should make yourself scarce for a while.
Я думаю, тебе стоит скрыться на некоторое время.
Honey, I got to make myself scarce.
Дорогая , Я должен скрыться
He’s making himself scarce.
Он решил скрыться.
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It scarcely could’ve been called a feast.
С трудом это можно назвать пиром.
I scarcely believe your idiot brother sent you.
С кем ты? Я с трудом могу поверить, что твой брат-идиот отправил тебя сюда.
I want ye so much, I can scarcely breathe.
Я хочу тебя так сильно, что с трудом могу дышать.
I could scarcely choose between them.
Я с трудом выбрал между ними.
Scarcely believed it.
С трудом верится.
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They are extremely scarce. Miss Fairfax.
Они очень редко встречаются.
Due to the density of growth, light barely reaches the ground, and low plants are scarce.
Из-за плотности роста, свет едва достигает земли, и низкие растения встречаются редко.
— Occasions are scarce for you.
— Но все же редко.
The way is hard and footwear is scarce.
Дороги трудные, а обувь редка.
Before the arrival of the printing press in Europe in the 1500’s, information was highly scarce and relatively easy to control.
До появления печатного пресса в Европе 1500-х, информация была редка и относительно легко управляема.
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Multiply that by thousands. The buffalo are getting scarce.
Умножь это на тысячи и бизоны станут дефицитом.
Alot of apartments are build because ground is scarce and expensive.
Строек мало. Земля стала дорогим дефицитом.
Plasma ammunition is scarce.
Плазменные боеприпасы в дефиците.
The fish they hunt are scarce and salamanders have poor eyesight.
Рыба в дефиците. У саламандр слабое зрение.
Fresh women is scarce in these parts, eh, Ermoke?
Свежие женщины — дефицит в здешних местах, а, Эрмок?
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1. Their is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize. 
2. Food and fuel were scarce in this region.
3. Food was often scarce in the winter.
4. In wartime, food is often scarce.
5. Food was scarce and expensive.
6. Many natural materials are becoming scarce.
7. Medical supplies were growing scarce.
8. It was wartime and food was scarce.
9. Tea and sugar were scarce and were rationed during the war.
10. Now that oil is scarce, the fate of the motor car is uncertain.
11. Why is full-frontal male nudity still so scarce in films?
12. There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize.
13. The food was scarce during the war.
14. I can scarce remember him.
15. I decided it was time to make myself scarce.
16. Details of the accident are scarce.
17. That bird has become scarce in this country.
18. Water is scarce in the desert.
19. Hospital beds were scarce and medicines were practically non-existent.
20. Strawberries are scarce this year.
21. He could scarce believe it.
22. When money was scarce they simply bartered.
23. The scarce shots spoke the end of the battle.
24. Food was scarce throughout the war.
25. Money was somewhat scarce after the war.
26. Skilled workers were becoming increasingly scarce.
27. Fresh food is so scarce that prices have rocketed.
28. Food and clean water were becoming scarce.
29. As the summer wore on food became scarce.
30. This kind of training is ineffective[sentencedict.com], and wasteful of scarce resources.
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Scarce in a sentence
Here below you will find several sentences that illustrate how to use the word scarce in a sentence.
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Pickings were scarce and No.
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Details about Cẩn’s early life are scarce.
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The devil was also reported as scarce in the 1850s.
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By the 1940s, reports of kakapo were becoming scarce.
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These lynxes may hunt in groups when hares are scarce.
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Bog mosses are more scarce, but Sphagnum cuspidatum, S.
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No Allied personnel were to eat the scarce Japanese food.
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Life for the blue-collar men of the port is increasingly hard and work is scarce.
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Excess food is often cached at roosting sites and can be used when food is scarce.
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Chicks are mainly fed soft-bodied insects, fruit only if invertebrates are scarce.
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Equipment was scarce in the Mediterranean, particularly in the backwater of Crete.
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Money becomes increasingly scarce, with the couple forced to sell their possessions.
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After dinner, what remains but to count the clock, and hope for that sleep which I can scarce expect.
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Heavy metals are relatively scarce in the Earth’s crust but are present in many aspects of modern life.
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If the snake were to become scarce, this would affect birds of prey and other predators that feed on it.
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The Nevada Test Site would be cheaper than Montebello, although the cost would be paid in scarce dollars.
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In Victoria, where it is otherwise scarce, it is locally more common at Corner Inlet and Gippsland Lakes.
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Intraspecific aggression and consequent cannibalism are rare, but may be more common when food is scarce.
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Hair can range from dense (the most dense hair in young calves) to scarce, and is usually a reddish brown.
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The many soldaderas women and children who followed the army consumed much of the already scarce supplies.
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Barn owls are usually specialist feeders in productive areas and generalists in areas where prey is scarce.
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The large number of soldaderas—women and children who followed the army—reduced the already scarce supplies.
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Other scarce plants found in the area include hairlike pondweed, pond water-crowfoot and greater pond sedge.
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A scarce resident breeder in laurisilva forests, the trocaz pigeon lays one white egg in a flimsy twig nest.
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Information is scarce about the basic facts of the massacre, including the exact date and number of victims.
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Pompeo’s appearances in the episode were scarce, as she was eight-and-a-half months pregnant during shooting.
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When fruits are scarce during winter and early spring, the birds eat more leaves and spend more time foraging.
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Details of giant otter reproduction and life cycle are scarce, and captive animals have provided much of the information.
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Older divergence dates are based on genetic analysis estimates, while younger dates are based on the scarce fossil record.
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When food is scarce, killer whales metabolize blubber for energy, which increases pollutant concentrations in their blood.
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A building boom began in Crompton in the mid-19th century, when suitable land for factories in Oldham was becoming scarce.
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For the quarter, key dates are the very low mintage 1896-S, 1901-S, and 1913-S issues, with the 1901-S particularly scarce.
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The search coincided with the arrival of the Great Depression in the United States, and money for land purchase was scarce.
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Remains of the species are scarce, but subfossils have been discovered in caves on the Plaine Corail and in Caverne Tortue.
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The resurgence of aspen after the fires was a contrast to pre-fire events, as aspen had been increasingly scarce in the park.
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The letter-winged kite typically hunts at night, with daytime foraging taking place in areas of superabundant or scarce prey.
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Ammunition remained scarce in the Middle Atlas, and many were forced to rely on locally manufactured gunpowder and cartridges.
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He sponsored an amendment to the Lever Food and Fuel Act forbidding the use of grain rendered scarce by World War I and a poor harvest in 1916 to make alcoholic beverages.
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Information is scarce on the extent of the ship’s involvement in the action, but it appears the carrier’s participation was minimal, as she embarked no aircraft at the time.
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The finishers also endured an unusual course: because snow was scarce near Whitehorse, they doubled back and finished in Dawson City after racing the 1,000 miles (1,609 km).
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The reserve is important for some scarce breeding birds, such as pied avocets on the islands, and western marsh harriers, Eurasian bitterns and bearded reedlings in the reeds.
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Because uranium hexafluoride, the only known gas containing uranium, was both scarce and difficult to handle, a mixture of carbon dioxide and water vapour was used to test it.
Synonyms for scarce
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I know food’s scarce, but your shirt?
Я знаю, что еды не хватает, но есть свою футболку?
The plague, it has made food scarce… as you can imagine.
Чума, из-за нее не хватает еды, ты об этом, естественно,
References to the scarce resources in the UNECE secretariat should therefore
be removed from the text;
Из текста следует удалить ссылки на скудность ресурсов секретариата ЕЭК ООН;
It’s a kind of custom coloreds have when food’s scarce’round here.
Because of extremely scarce financing, many intended program measures were not realized.
О причине крайне ограниченного финансирования многие мероприятия программы остались не реализованными.
Scarce funds make attendance at other international meetings difficult.
Недостаточное финансирование затрудняет посещение других международных встреч.
Our funding is scarce, we work for extremely low salaries.
У нас очень скудное финансирование, мы работаем на удивительно низкую зарплату.
During periods when resources were scarce, waste was recycled into new materials.
Во время периодов, когда ресурсы были недостаточными, ненужные, был переработан в новые материалы.
In parallel, we are switching the generating units from the scarce anthracite to G grade coal.
Параллельно осуществляется перевод энергоблоков с дефицитного антрацита на уголь марки« Г».
Interpreters represented a scarce resource, which was wasted if no meetings were held.
Контингент устных переводчиков представляет собой дефицитный ресурс, который расходуется впустую, если заседания не проводятся.
The information received on illicit
coca bush cultivation in 2001 is scarce.
Полученная информация о незаконном культивировании
кокаинового куста в 2001 году является недостаточной.
I first noticed that good seafood was becoming scarce when… the akagai started to disappear.
Я заметил, что хорошой морская живности стало меньше когда… моллюск Акагай начал пропадать.
However, our efforts remain limited by scarce development financing.
Однако наши усилия попрежнему сдерживаются скудным финансированием развития.
Absorption chillers- they are used for operation in conditions of scarce electrical energy resources.
Абсорбционные чиллеры- применяются в условиях дефицита электроэнергии.
Water rises, air becomes scarce.
Вода поднимается, воздуха становится меньше.
Moldova is facing a very complicated situation of scarce energy resources.
Молдова находится в очень сложном положении в связи с нехваткой энергоресурсов.
As a consequence, freshwater is becoming scarce.
For information about Rublev very scarce.
Сведения о Рублеве весьма скудны.
For lawyers, the offer was very scarce.
The effective functioning of these bodies remains problematic, due to scarce human and financial resources.
Эффективное функционирование этих органов остается проблематичным из-за дефицита людских и финансовых ресурсов.
Moreover, opportunities for employment outside the region have, in general, become more scarce.
Кроме того, в целом стало еще меньше возможностей для трудоустройства за пределами региона.
Within Europe we will discourage the inefficient use of scarce raw materials and energy.
В рамках Европейского континента мы будем препятствовать неэффективному использованию скудного сырья и энергии.
Financial contributions channelled through UNDP for demining activities are scarce.
Финансовые взносы, направляемые через ПРООН на деятельность по разминированию, носят дефицитный характер.
It is clear, then,
that the challenges are great and the resources scarce.
В этой связи ясно, что задачи грандиозны и ресурсы ограниченны.
Without irrigation nothing would grow, but water is a scarce commodity in Saudi.
Без орошения ничто не росло бы, но вода- дефицитный товар в Саудовской Аравии.
For information about the life and work of Michael Shibanov extremely scarce.
Сведения о жизни и творчестве Михаила Шибанова чрезвычайно скудны.
Multiply that by thousands. Little Jack, the buffalo is getting scarce.
Умножь это на тысячи и бизоны станут дефицитом.
Practice concerning countermeasures
taken against international organizations is undoubtedly scarce.
Практика, касающаяся контрмер,
принимавшихся в отношении международных организаций, является, разумеется, ограниченной.
And prodigal- radiocomponents were not scarce only, but very expensive,
И расточительного- радиокомпоненты были не только крайне дефицитны, но и очень дороги.
The Kiribati Police Service carry scarce weapons.
Полицейская служба Кирибати носит скудное оружие.
1.
I went thru a dozen women in that time and they were scarce out there where that cut was
2.
Money was scarce but not for the young Bimal
3.
At least he wouldn’t miss this in the dark, even though lanterns were scarce in the yard
4.
Like the rest of club land, the boys are staring at Leona and Bex, putting together the essential facts; it’s time to make themselves scarce
5.
Davie is aware of time, aware of the slow dripping down of fragile existence, aware of the need to make himself scarce, but he is fascinated by this montage, by this still life
6.
I found out that parts for the Boeing 777 are particularly scarce at present, making this a plausible motive
7.
He explained that there were scarce traces of the Energy Age in Lumpral, and the whole Trenst basin had been peopled by hunter-gatherer tribes who watched the Energy Age go by while peeking from under the forest canopy
8.
Humans were scarce among them – dwarves even scarcer
9.
Many workmen could not subsist a week, few could subsist a month, and scarce any a year, without employment
10.
Both the pecuniary income and expense of such families have increased considerably since that time through the greater part of the kingdom, in some places more, and in some less, though perhaps scarce anywhere so much as some exaggerated accounts of the present wages of labour have lately represented them to the public
11.
High wages of labour and high profits of stock, however, are things, perhaps, which scarce ever go together, except in the peculiar circumstances of new colonies
12.
In a country, too, where, though the rich, or the owners of large capitals, enjoy a good deal of security, the poor, or the owners of small capitals, enjoy scarce any, but are liable, under the pretence of justice, to be pillaged and plundered at any time by the inferior mandarins, the quantity of stock employed in all the different branches of business transacted within it, can never be equal to what the nature and extent of that business might admit
13.
But there is scarce any common trade in which a small stock yields so
14.
That the chance of loss is frequently undervalued, and scarce ever valued more than it is
15.
have scarce any chance of preferment, they figure to themselves, in their youthful fancies, a
16.
remain in the condition of common sailors, they receive scarce any other recompence but the
17.
silk-weavers in London had scarce been incorporated a year, when they enacted a bye-law,
18.
shoemakers in London who earn forty pounds a-year, and there is scarce an industrious
19.
But this is a security which scarce any man
20.
There is scarce a poor man in England, of forty years of age, 1 will venture to say,
21.
This, no doubt, may be partly the case upon some occasions ; for it can scarce ever be more than partly the case
22.
It affords a good rent ; and the landlord sometimes finds that he can scarce employ his best lands more advantageously than in growing barren timber, of which the greatness of the profit often compensates the lateness of the returns
23.
If the countries are near, the difference will be smaller, and may sometimes be scarce perceptible ; because in this case the transportation will be easy
24.
Among savages, the poorest of all nations, they are scarce of any value
25.
Their whole commerce was carried on by barter, and there was accordingly scarce any division of labour among them
26.
The Spanish armies, though they scarce ever exceeded five hundred men, and frequently did not amount to half that number, found almost everywhere great difficulty in procuring subsistence
27.
The difference in their accounts of the populousness of several other principal towns of Chili and Peru is nearly the same ; and as there seems to be no reason to doubt of the good information of either, it marks an increase which is scarce inferior to that of the English colonies
28.
There is scarce any commodity which brings a better price there; or which, in proportion to the quantity of labour and commodities which it costs in Europe
29.
That, notwithstanding this reduction, the value of silver has, during the course of the present century, begun to rise somewhat in the European market, the facts and arguments which have been alleged above, dispose me to believe, or more properly to suspect and conjecture; for the best opinion which I can form upon this subject, scarce, perhaps, deserves the name of belief
30.
The first comprehends those which it is scarce in the power of human industry to multiply at all
31.
Had the Scotch cattle been always confined to the market of Scotland, in a country in which the quantity of land, which can be applied to no other purpose but the feeding of cattle, is so great in proportion to what can be applied to other purposes, it is scarce possible, perhaps, that their price could ever have risen so high as to render it profitable to cultivate land for the sake of feeding them
32.
In England, the price of cattle, it has already been observed, seems, in the neighbourhood of London, to have got to this height about the beginning of the last century; but it was much later, probably, before it got through the greater part of the remoter counties, in some of which, perhaps, it may scarce yet have got to it
33.
Till the price of cattle, indeed, has got to this height, it seems scarce possible that the greater part, even of those lands which are capable of the highest cultivation, can be completely cultivated
34.
The rest will, the greater part of them, be allowed to lie waste, producing scarce any thing but some miserable pasture, just sufficient to keep alive a few straggling, half-starved cattle; the farm, though much overstocked in proportion to what would be necessary for its complete cultivation, being very frequently overstocked in proportion to its actual produce
35.
Without some increase of stock, there can be scarce any improvement of land, but there can be no considerable increase of stock, but in consequence of a considerable improvement of land ; because otherwise the land could not maintain it
36.
They make scarce any manure for their corn fields, he says ; but when one piece of ground has been exhausted by continual cropping, they clear and cultivate another piece of fresh land; and when that is exhausted, proceed to a third
37.
These, as they are fed with what would otherwise be lost, are a mere save-all ; and as they cost the farmer scarce any thing, so he can afford to sell them for very little
38.
Almost all that he gets is pure gain, and their price can scarce be so low as to discourage him from feeding this number
39.
The feeding of poultry seems scarce yet to be generally considered as a matter of so much importance in England
40.
In the warm season, when it is most abundant, it will scarce keep four-and-twenty hours
41.
Part of all these is reserved for the use of his own family; the rest goes to market, in order to find the best price which is to be had, and which can scarce be so low is to discourage him from sending thither whatever is over and above the use of his own family
42.
If it is very low indeed, he will be likely to manage his dairy in a very slovenly and dirty manner, and will scarce, perhaps, think it worth while to have a particular room or building on purpose for it, but will suffer the business to be carried on amidst the smoke, filth, and nastiness of his own kitchen, as was the case of almost all the farmers’ dairies in Scotland thirty or forty years ago, and as is the case of many of them still
43.
The increase of the quantity of gold and silver in Europe, and the increase of its manufactures and agriculture, are two events which, though they have happened nearly about the same time, yet have arisen from very different causes, and have scarce any natural connection with one another
44.
so that, without any further care or attention, those coffers are likely to be always equally or very near equally full, and scarce ever to require any extraordinary expense to replenish them
45.
were scarce and the rent was coming due
46.
With regard to the latter, it seems to have made scarce any distinction between real and circulating bills, but to have discounted all equally
47.
Corn is, upon most occasions, fully as cheap in England as in France, though there is a great deal of paper money in England, and scarce any in France
48.
, To oblige a creditor, therefore, to accept of this as full payment for a debt of £100, actually paid down in ready money, was an act of such violent injustice, as has scarce, perhaps, been attempted by the government of any other country which pretended to be free
49.
In the whole interval which separates those two moments, there is scarce, perhaps, a single instance, in which any man is so perfectly and completely satisfied with his situation, as to be without any wish of alteration or improvement of any kind
50.
In some ancient cities, which either have been long stationary, or have gone somewhat to decay, you will sometimes scarce find a single house which could have been built for its present inhabitants
51.
Even they scarce ever borrow merely to spend
52.
The course of human prosperity, indeed, seems scarce ever to have been of so long continuance as to unable any great country to acquire capital sufficient for all those three purposes; unless, perhaps, we give credit to the wonderful accounts of the wealth and cultivation of China, of those of ancient Egypt, and of the ancient state of Indostan
53.
Yeah, the rural scene, surrounded by vast open spaces, dirt or gravel roads, scarce traffic (mostly pickups and tractors), and almost no noise at all anywhere you turned, at least of the kind that was to be found in my home of the other nine months
54.
The Arabian histories seem to be all full of genealogies; and there is a history written by a Tartar Khan, which has been translated into several European languages, and which contains scarce any thing else; a proof that ancient families are very common among those nations
55.
Money, like wine, must always be scarce with those who have neither wherewithal to buy it, nor credit to borrow it
56.
The transportation of commodities, when properly suited to the market, is always attended with a considerable profit; whereas that of gold and silver is scarce ever attended with any
57.
The whole gold and silver annually imported into both Spain and Portugal, according to the best accounts, does not commonly much exceed £6,000,000 sterling, which, in some years, would scarce have paid four months expense of the late war
58.
A country which carried on foreign trade merely upon this account, could scarce have occasion to freight a ship in a century
59.
The number of vagrants was scarce anywhere sensibly increased by it ; even the wages of labour were not reduced by it in any occupation, so far as I have been able to learn, except in that of seamen in the merchant service
60.
That part of his capital which had usually been employed in purchasing materials, and in paying his workmen, might, without much difficulty, perhaps, find another employment ; but that part of it which was fixed in workhouses, and in the instruments of trade, could scarce be disposed of without considerable loss
61.
A gentleman drunk with ale has scarce ever been seen among us
62.
The violence and injustice of the rulers of mankind is an ancient evil, for which, I am afraid, the nature of human affairs can scarce admit of a remedy : but the mean rapacity, the monopolizing spirit, of merchants and manufacturers, who neither are, nor ought to be, the rulers of mankind, though it cannot, perhaps, be corrected, may very easily be prevented from disturbing the tranquillity of anybody but themselves
63.
The ancient Egyptians, it is said, neglected foreign commerce, and the modem Chinese, it is known, hold it in the utmost contempt, and scarce deign to afford it the decent protection of the laws
64.
In spite of all these encouragements, almost all those different companies, both great and small, lost either the whole or the greater part of their capitals; scarce a vestige now remains of any of them, and the white-herring fishery is now entirely, or almost entirely, carried on by private adventurers
65.
But it is scarce possible, even by the
66.
Even in such countries, however, the drought is, perhaps, scarce ever so universal as necessarily to occasion a famine, if the government would allow a free trade
67.
the quarter, besides, though it may be considered as a very high price, yet, in years of scarcity, it is a price which frequently takes place immediately after harvest, when scarce any part of the new crop can be sold off, and when it is impossible even for ignorance to suppose that any part of it can be so engrossed as to hurt the people
68.
In such great countries as France or England, it scarce ever can
69.
This diminution, however, can scarce amount to any positive loss, but only to a lessening of the gain which it might otherwise make
70.
Had the king of Portugal submitted to those ignominious terms which his brother-in-law the king of Spain proposed to him, Britain would have been freed from a much greater inconveniency than the loss of the Portugal trade, the burden of supporting a very weak ally, so unprovided of every thing for his own defence, that the whole power of England, had it been directed to that single purpose, could scarce, perhaps, have defended him for another campaign
71.
The citizens, therefore, who had no land, had scarce any other means of subsistence but the bounties of the candidates at the annual elections
72.
He has no rent, and scarce any taxes, to pay
73.
Towards the end of the fifteenth, and during the greater part of the sixteenth century, Spain and Portugal were the two great naval powers upon the ocean ; for though the commerce of Venice extended to every part of Europe, its fleet had scarce ever sailed beyond the Mediterranean
74.
The plenty and cheapness of good land are such powerful causes of prosperity, that the very worst government is scarce capable of checking altogether the efficacy of their operation
75.
The government of Spain contributed scarce any thing to any of them
76.
Its superiority, perhaps, would scarce appear greater in the present times, at least if the Dutch navy were to bear the same proportion to the Dutch commerce now which it did then
77.
In her present condition, Great Britain resembles one of those unwholesome bodies in which some of the vital parts are overgrown, and which, upon that account, are liable to many dangerous disorders, scarce incident to those in which all the parts are more properly proportioned
78.
Have the exorbitant profits of the merchants of Cadiz and Lisbon augmented the capital of Spain and Portugal ? Have they alleviated the poverty, have they promoted the industry, of those two beggarly countries? Such has been the tone of mercantile expense in those two trading cities, that those exorbitant profits, far from augmenting the general capital of the country, seem scarce to have been sufficient to keep up the capitals upon which they were made
79.
The most visionary enthusiasts would scarce be capable of proposing such a measure, with any serious hopes at least of its ever being adopted
80.
The persons who now govern the resolutions of what they call their continental congress, feel in themselves at this moment a degree of importance which, perhaps, the greatest subjects in Europe scarce feel
81.
In such circumstances, to prohibit the servants of the company from trading upon their own account, can have scarce any other effect than to enable its superior servants, under pretence of executing their master’s order, to oppress such of the inferior ones as have had the misfortune to fall under their displeasure
82.
It is scarce possible to devise a tax which could produce any considerable revenue to the sovereign, and at the same time occasion so little inconveniency to anybody
83.
Even though he couldn’t see the river, he thought about how that water runs wild and free, abundant, while in most of the world it is scarce and people are dying from lack of it
84.
That minister had unfortunately embraced all the prejudices of the mercantile system, in its nature and essence a system of restraint and regulation, and such as could scarce fail to be agreeable to a laborious and plodding man of business, who had been accustomed to regulate the different departments of public offices, and to establish the necessary checks and controlls for confining each to its proper sphere
85.
A more extensive foreign trade, however, which to this great home market added the foreign market of all the rest of the world, especially if any considerable part of this trade was carried on in Chinese ships, could scarce fail to increase very much the manufactures of China, and to improve very much the productive powers of its manufacturing industry
86.
As long as nothing stops their progress, as long as they can go on from one district, of which they have consumed the forage, to another, which is yet entire; there seems to be scarce any limit to the number who can march on together
87.
In order to render them less formidable, according to some authors, Dioclesian, according to others, Constantine, first withdrew them from the frontier, where they had always before been encamped in great bodies, generally of two or three legions each, and dispersed them in small bodies through the different provincial towns, from whence they were scarce ever removed, but when it became necessary to repel an invasion
88.
Among nations of hunters, as there is scarce any property, or at least none that exceeds the value of two or three days labour ; so there is seldom any established magistrate, or any regular administration of justice
89.
Though the produce of his estate may be sufficient to maintain, and may, perhaps, actually maintain, more than a thousand people, yet, as those people pay for every thing which they get from him, as he gives scarce any thing to any body but in exchange for an equivalent, there is scarce anybody who considers himself as entirely dependent upon him, and his authority extends only over a few menial servants
90.
Such nations are always strangers to every sort of luxury, and great wealth can scarce ever be dissipated among them by improvident profusion
91.
This scheme of making the administration of justice subservient to the purposes of revenue, could scarce fail to be productive of several very gross abuses
92.
“They»re here because food could became scarce
93.
During the continuance of this state of things, therefore, the corruption of justice, naturally resulting from the arbitrary and uncertain nature of those presents, scarce admitted of any effectual remedy
94.
When the judicial is united to the executive power, it is scarce possible that justice should not frequently be sacrificed to what is vulgarly called politics
95.
It seems scarce possible to invent a more equitable way of maintaining such works
96.
Under the local or provincial administration of the justices of the peace in Great Britain, the six days labour which the country people are obliged to give to the reparation of the highways, is not always, perhaps, very judiciously applied, but it is scarce ever exacted with any circumstance of cruelty or oppression
97.
The maintenance of a public minister, requiring scarce any attention, and but a moderate and limited expense, is a business much more suitable both to the temper and abilities of a regulated company
98.
The car, in any case, would make itself scarce in whatever area it thought to be inconspicuous
99.
than that it should come into the hands of a set of people with whom those resolutions could scarce fail to set them in some measure at variance
100.
circumstances, is a species of warfare, of which the operations are continually changing, and which can scarce ever be conducted successfully, without such an unremitting exertion of vigilance and attention as cannot long be expected from the directors of a joint-stock company