limited supply
collocation in Englishmeaningsoflimitedandsupply
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limited
adjective
uk/ˈlɪm.ɪ.tɪd/us/ˈlɪm.ɪ.t̬ɪd/
small in amount ...
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supply
noun
uk/səˈplaɪ/us/səˈplaɪ/
an amount of something that is available ...
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(Definition oflimitedandsupplyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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In these cases it is a matter of logic that esteem is inlimitedsupply.
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In fact, thelimitedsupplyof any haemangioma tissue is an ongoing concern.
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In all these three situations there is a permanent butlimitedsupplyof water.
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This study showed that such resources were often inlimitedsupply, or absent, in health authorities.
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Is esteem in this broad sense a good that is inlimitedsupplyand significant demand?
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In addition, several key resources were not available, or in alimitedsupply, at the local level.
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This means, to return to the main theme, that esteem will be inlimitedsupply, in the appropriate sense.
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As mentioned before, alimitedsupplyof social services compels females to provide longterm care of frail older people.
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Yes, there is alimitedsupplyof land, and everything of which there is alimitedsupplyhas value.
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Other substitute gases are inlimitedsupply.
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I was told that there was alimitedsupply.
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He has alimitedsupplyof points goods.
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There is alimitedsupplyof oil in the world.
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We are legislating now with regard to alimitedsupply.
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But if we agree that esteem is in significant demand among ordinary people, what of the assumption that it is inlimitedsupply?
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Limitedsupplyof any or all of these substrates, and the fetal response to that limitation, may result in impairment of fetal growth.
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Second, there is alimitedsupplyof private providers in all three countries and some restrictions in publicly funded access to private facilities (see below).
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Second, due to thelimitedsupplyof good quality domestic waste, developing countries stand to gain significantly from international trade in good quality wastes.
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It was a question of utilising to the best advantage alimitedsupplyof raw material and alimitedsupplyof labour.
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For example, the market price of a number of environmental resources, in situ, is zero, even though, being inlimitedsupply, their accounting prices are positive.
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The claim that esteem is inlimitedsupplybecomes plausible, however, when we take account of how limitation of supply is best understood in an economic context.
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