How do you use Shortages in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, plus the exact meaning.
Shortages meaning
plural of shortage
Using Shortages
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of shortage
- In the example corpus, shortages often appears in combinations such as: shortages and, shortages in, shortages of.
Context around Shortages
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 11 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Shortages
- In this selection, "shortages" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 27.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, water, staffing, labour, inside, last and faced stand out and add context to how "shortages" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include about generalised shortages of any and address staff shortages shortages of. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "shortages" sits close to words such as contacts, documented and electronics, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with shortages
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
A congressional committee later held a hearing on the Luzerne paper shortages. (12 words)
Artificially low prices often cause rationing and shortages and discourage future investment, resulting in yet further shortages. (17 words)
According to Nintendo executives, last year's downturn came as a result of supply shortages, not a decrease in demand. (20 words)
The committee today received two petitions on water shortages in these two areas and agreed that while the committee is dealing with them, there is a need for a broader discussion on solutions to water shortages in many areas in the country. (42 words)
Zimbabwe is currently experiencing the worst shortages of foreign currency since 2009, with its pricing on the parallel market inefficient and speculative," he said, adding the development would also not ease the country's foreign exchange shortages. (37 words)
Active national drug shortages hit a 10-year high this year, leaving many health care providers, pharmacies, and hospitals without enough life-saving and supportive medications, according to collected by the University of Utah Drug Information Service. (37 words)
Example sentences (20)
At a closer look, the picture gets a little clearer—businesses have been struggling with shortages of raw materials, components and stock for over two years now, which has translated into shortages of finished products.
Close to a dozen of those shortages are caused by increased demand like Adderall appears to be, whereas it's far more common for shortages to be caused by supply disruptions, Ganio said.
The committee today received two petitions on water shortages in these two areas and agreed that while the committee is dealing with them, there is a need for a broader discussion on solutions to water shortages in many areas in the country.
These refugees have been sufficiently numerous to cause labor shortages inside Russia, forcing the government to import North Korean workers to deal with some of the shortages.
NHI will not build infrastructure and address staff shortages, shortages of information technology and the many other issues in health,” he said.
The IBM report suggests that severe staffing shortages are linked to higher data breach costs – more than half of the 604 organisations studied had severe or high-level staffing shortages last year.
The Planning Portal Market Index report highlighted the impact of high interest rates, skills shortages in the construction industry and materials shortages as possible culprits.
Deputy chief medical officer Paul Kelly today announced the changes, saying there were no concerns about generalised shortages of any products, but some localised shortages in certain pharmacies were raising community fears.
Furthermore, as client-side inventories are still showing shortages, the purchasing momentum of memory products will continue to hold up despite problems of labor and material shortages faced by downstream clients.
Many Americans can deal with short-term shortages, but if these shortages stretch into the summer months a whole lot of people are going to become extremely frustrated.
Zimbabwe is currently experiencing the worst shortages of foreign currency since 2009, with its pricing on the parallel market inefficient and speculative," he said, adding the development would also not ease the country's foreign exchange shortages.
Artificially low prices often cause rationing and shortages and discourage future investment, resulting in yet further shortages.
Modern agriculture's heavy reliance on petrochemicals and mechanization has raised concerns that oil shortages could increase costs and reduce agricultural output, causing food shortages.
According to him, the National Assembly has allocated funds for a petroleum product subsidy in order to offset unanticipated events, particularly product shortages.
According to Nintendo executives, last year's downturn came as a result of supply shortages, not a decrease in demand.
According to the statement released by the Council, the main agenda of this meeting was to discuss healthcare systems, labour shortages and the rising cost of living.
A congressional committee later held a hearing on the Luzerne paper shortages.
Active national drug shortages hit a 10-year high this year, leaving many health care providers, pharmacies, and hospitals without enough life-saving and supportive medications, according to collected by the University of Utah Drug Information Service.
Added Mr Lebeda: “Worldwide labour shortages have completely changed the expectations of today’s knowledge workers, in terms of working conditions and flexibility.
Adding that there has been a "market failure" when it comes to the shortages of many items like pork and eggs.
Common combinations with shortages
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- shortages and 24×
- shortages in 21×
- shortages of 19×
- staff shortages 16×
- staffing shortages 15×
- labour shortages 13×
- shortages have 12×
- labor shortages 10×
- the shortages 9×
- shortages are 8×