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  • We have numerous sharpshooters, but rather a dearth of camera crews.†  (source)
  • All you know of life you learned from singers, and there's such a dearth of good sacking songs.†  (source)
  • It was a fairly awful reminder, the dearth of good memories we had since our move, that my wife was forced to pick Hannibal for her treasure hunt.†  (source)
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  • The heat had caused a dearth of conversation and made him welcome almost any question.†  (source)
  • None of the shops were boarded up yet, but observing the dearth of cars parked in front of the businesses, he wondered how long they could hold out.†  (source)
  • And as Howard Jones once wrote, "Hopkins, with its large indigent black population, had no dearth of clinical material."†  (source)
  • The physician had asked McAllister how he expected to replace him — there was a dearth of competent doctors in Macao.†  (source)
  • It offered a set of bona fide heroes rather than simply a dearth of villains.†  (source)
  • He expounded on the lack of morality in the young, the dearth of organized religion in the home, the school, the workplace.†  (source)
  • Many thousands then perished, but the Days of Dearth (1158-60) were at the time of this tale long past and the Hobbits had again become accustomed to plenty.†  (source)
  • She didn't like recalling how he'd laughed at her, but when she had such a dearth of material, she needed every detail, uncomfortable or not.†  (source)
  • There was a dearth of pens that day in class.†  (source)
  • Never had he seen "such a dearth of public spirit and want of virtue" as among the Yankee soldiers, he confided in a letter to Reed of November 28.†  (source)
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