scarce

Here’s the problem: When everyone’s hunting the same prey with the same weapons, the prey gets scarce.

Fuel became scarce, and emergency supplies such as water and batteries had flown off store shelves.

We have plenty of stone and granite in Egypt, but wood is a scarce resource.

Hatakeyama compares this to an updated version of Liebig's famous barrel analogy, in which a plant's growth is limited by its shortest stave, representing the scarcest resource.

Professor Stanish added that the site has long drawn public fascination, but reliable data was scarce.