| 单词 | desperate shortage |
| 释义 | desperate shortage Top brass have raised the top age for recruits by seven years to 33 to counter their desperate shortage of personnel. The Sun We're not in favour of building schools where there are surplus places, when there are other areas with a desperate shortage of places. Times, Sunday Times It doesn't add up and there's a desperate shortage of people agreeing to donate their organs after theirdeaths. Times, Sunday Times The rush into the trade began four years ago with a report that there was a desperate shortage of plumbers, who could earn 70,000 a year. Times, Sunday Times The war years were characterised by a desperate shortage of raw materials for civilian industry and of petrol, but these factors were not apparent instantly. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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