scarceness

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While there’s a scarceness of concrete data to support this, the salon owners and barbers in various countries who I spoke to reported a moderate uptick in interest in body hair care.

From The Wall Street Journal • Aug. 13, 2018

There was a great scarceness of lead for bullets; and to supply that need the leaden sashes, in which window-panes were at that time set, were melted down.

From The Naval History of the United States Volume 1 by Abbot, Willis J. (Willis John)

Its value advances yearly, with the increasing scarceness of the animal; it will soon entirely disappear, and exist only in description to decorate our zoological works.

From A New Voyage Round the World, in the years 1823, 24, 25, and 26, Vol. 2 by Kotzebue, Otto von

If he be vanquished,   Or make his peace, Egypt is doomed to be   A Roman province; and our plenteous harvests   Must then redeem the scarceness of their soil.

From All for Love Or, the World Well Lost A Tragedy by Dryden, John

There's a number o' machines hier the day, Messis McTarvish, an' a wonderfu' crood; there'll be a bit scarceness ower on yon side, but a gey many a'thegither.

From Mr. Punch in the Highlands by Various