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

Books are to me instead of friends, I wish they did not resemble the latter in their scarceness.

From The Best Letters of Charles Lamb by Lamb, Charles

Such are oxen, goats, and horses, which are much valued for their scarceness, but used without saddle, bridle, or trappings.

From Prince Henry the Navigator, the Hero of Portugal and of Modern Discovery, 1394-1460 A.D. With an Account of Geographical Progress Throughout the Middle Ages As the Preparation for His Work. by Beazley, C. Raymond

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 The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 05 by Scott, Walter, Sir

The occurrence of these large boulders together with the scarceness of fossils has suggested a glacial origin for the formation; but the evidence hitherto collected is not conclusive.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" by Various