in short supply

The women offered up principles they feel are in short supply lately in the discourse over the government’s role in public health — among them “morals” and “empathy.”

Many of the beds do not even have mattresses, medicines are in short supply, and the casualties are endless.

The three leads can still, when given room, generate an anything-can-happen vibe, even if the improvisatory pearls are in short supply.

The way in which they were targeted by the Proteas left England crying out for a seam-bowling all-rounder, but they are in short supply.

Sympathy for England will be in short supply.