inadequate supply
collocation in Englishmeaningsofinadequateandsupply
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inadequate
adjective
uk/ɪˈnæd.ɪ.kwət/us/ɪˈnæd.ə.kwət/
not good enough or too low ...
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supply
noun
uk/səˈplaɪ/us/səˈplaɪ/
an amount of something that is available ...
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(Definition ofinadequateandsupplyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Animals were badly housed in cramped conditions and there was aninadequatesupplyof fodder crops.
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Clinically, patients are more vulnerable to injury due toinadequatesupplyof oxygen or increased demand during rapid rewarming.
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That is theinadequatesupplyof maternity beds.
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There is aninadequatesupplyof such accommodation.
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The first is to supplement aninadequatesupply.
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There is aninadequatesupplyof mineral and soda water.
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These include high environmental temperature, lower genetic potential for milk production in indigenous cattle andinadequatesupplyof food during the dry summer months.
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So aninadequatesupplyof steel obviously has the gravest effects on our economy.
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In some areas there has been aninadequatesupplyof fuel oil to meet the needs.
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That is against a backdrop of aninadequatesupplyof new accommodation locally.
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In the transitional period we shall undoubtedly have a shortage of labour and, consequently, aninadequatesupplyof goods.
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What we want now is some remedy to address the problem of aninadequatesupplyof good quality immigration advice.
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There is aninadequatesupplyof community psychiatric nurses and as a result many such patients go unsupervised.
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We all know of the problems of theinadequatesupplyof skilled nurses in areas such as paediatric intensive care.
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I think we ought to be quite frank about theinadequatesupplyof tomatoes in certain areas.
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We in this country have to renew our strength with aninadequatesupplyof young man-power.
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For practically the whole time there has been aninadequatesupplyof labour, especially of skilled labour.
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Inadequatesupplyand increasing housing costs go some way to explaining the crisis but not why it exists.
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In many cases there was a totallyinadequatesupplyof water, and the water was impure in many other cases.
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All that we shall be doing without financial resources is to perpetuate these patchy,inadequatesupplyservices.
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I have no information to suggest that the nurses are suffering in consequence of aninadequatesupplyof nourishing food.
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The problem is aninadequatesupplyof housing, not the way in which housing managers are dealing with the problem.
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I know that there has been some argument about the number of properties receiving aninadequatesupply.
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In relation to theinadequatesupplyof boots or clothing, when has it ever been any different?
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But that does not necessarily mean that there is aninadequatesupplyof land for economic development and affordable housing.
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