What is "in short supply"

Usage examples of "in short supply".

But with gas and tires in short supply, taxis might as well have been swept off the street.

But money is always in short supply in Mexico, and these young men are happy to earn it by working for us.

Powered beds were always in short supply and cost six times as much as an ordinary bed.

Yes, gasoline was in short supply, with almost all of it earmarked for the front.

Lions and tigers were in short supply but Britain had wolves, bulls and Caledonian bears.

With Yamato's much smaller population, labor, not land, is in short supply.

Bury poured himself another glass of wine, carefully selecting one that Blaine had said was in short supply.

She was about to face the greatest challenge of her career, a redesign of a Children's Family Center on Kuro that was switching its function from raising engineers to raising botanists, who, Confederacy computers projected, would be in short supply in about twenty years.

As Matthews said, cruisers were always in short supply, which was the reason cruiser skippers got so little rest.

As Matthews said, cruisers were always in short supply, which was the reason cruiser skippers got so little rest .

With soldiers, lords, and hangers-on drifting constantly in and out, goods of all sorts were high-priced and in short supply.