Items are also given a higher value when they were once in high supply but have now become scarce.

Workers' complaints have changed over the years as labor has become more scarce.

There is a waiting list of 500 for future plots because land has become so scarce.

The small group size also made moving much easier if needed, once resources were becoming scarce in the area.

The stores are all closed, and food is becoming scarce.

Because so few of them were made they have become comparatively scarce.

But in recent decades, the supply of those woods has become scarce.

As a result, bills of $20 or less are becoming increasingly scarce.

He hadn't been paying much attention to which ship's materials were becoming scarce.

Early on, medals were produced in much smaller numbers, and these have become quite scarce, he said.