persistent shortage

collocation in English

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persistent
adjective
uk
/pəˈsɪs.tənt/us
/pɚˈsɪs.tənt/
lasting for a long time or difficult to get ...
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shortage
noun[C]
uk
/ˈʃɔː.tɪdʒ/us
/ˈʃɔːr.t̬ɪdʒ/
a situation in which there is not enough ...
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As a result there was apersistentshortageof doctors in the colonies, to the inevitable benefit of existing professionals.
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Fatigued and afflicted with apersistentshortageof trained leaders and fighters, dissension and factionalism, it lost the will power to win.
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There is known to be a serious andpersistentshortageof teachers of mathematics, the physical sciences, and craft, design and technology.
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The company concerned experiences apersistentshortageof site engineers.
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There is a serious andpersistentshortageof teachers of mathematics, the physical sciences and craft, design and technology.
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We recognise that there is apersistentshortageof such teachers, and this has been the situation over a period of years.
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There has been apersistentshortageof steel sheets, particularly of pressing quality, since the end of the war.
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There is apersistentshortageof some subjects to which training institutions are giving priority, but recruitment is falling short of its targets.
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There has, however, been apersistentshortageof teachers, which has limited the opening of new schools.
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To turn to the question of the numbers of teachers, thepersistentshortageof teachers of mathematics is, of course, a serious problem.
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Increases would have been significantly greater without diseases and apersistentshortageof animal feed.
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The purpose was to address apersistentshortageof teachers for the common schools in the area.
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There are persistent shortages in some sectors of the less skilled trades which give cause for some concern.
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There are persistent shortages of common foodstuffs.
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This automatic abolition of non-market-clearing situations distinguishes markets from central planning schemes, which often have a difficult time getting prices right and suffer from persistent shortages of goods and services.
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