severe shortage

collocation in English

meaningsofsevereandshortage

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severe
adjective
uk
/sɪˈvɪər/us
/səˈvɪr/
causing very great pain, difficulty, worry, damage, etc.; ...
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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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(Definition ofsevereandshortagefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Spurred by asevereshortageof cadaveric organs, there has been a marked growth in living organ donation over the past several years.
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There was asevereshortageof manpower during a desperate war, and making use of convicts is not an unusual practice.
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Unfortunately, liver transplantation is limited by thesevereshortageof cadaveric organ donors and the brief time available in which to obtain a suitable liver.
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Banishment to a thriving commodity-producing zone with asevereshortageof labour was proving the opposite of punishment.
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Residents encountered asevereshortageof fish, a staple of their daily diet.
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War there were extremely heavy casualties among young men, which clearly created asevereshortageof men available for marriage in 1921.
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There has, however, been some fall in railings recently throughsevereshortageof water for locomotives at the end of the dry season.
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I am afraid that, with thesevereshortageof timber, we cannot afford to relax.
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There is now asevereshortageof foreign exchange.
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If we want to stop the delays and cost increases, we need to tackle thatsevereshortage.
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They have had to be taken at a time when there is asevereshortageof resources in many other areas.
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I am well aware of the presentsevereshortageof these goods.
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A year ago there was a shortage, and in some ancillary uses asevereshortage.
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The reason for the huge waiting lists for local authority housing is clear—it is quite simply thesevereshortageof affordable housing.
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We are suffering at the moment from a verysevereshortageof capital investment.
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Therefore, the drift to general practice and the drying up of the overseas doctors pool has created asevereshortageof medical manpower.
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There is already asevereshortageof places for such sufferers.
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There is asevereshortageof homes in my borough.
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This is the difficulty of the problem, because there is asevereshortageof information.
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With thesevereshortageof midwives, many of the excellent pilot schemes that were originally set up have failed to continue.
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