He'd stopped smoking after he lost his teaching job and money grew scarce.

He hadn't heard of any problems with the new campaign, except perhaps that some supplies were already beginning to grow scarce.

As building jobs have grown scarce, many of the workers who left farm labor a few years ago are returning to where they came from.

Against this backdrop, the numbers of priests are growing scarce.

It is cold, game grows scarce, and they are hungry.

As the evening wore on, these telling moments grew scarce.

The roads were busy at first, then the traffic grew more scarce.

Electricity and phone service have been cut, and food is growing scarce.

But with mining jobs growing scarce, many young people have left for Minneapolis, some 200 miles to the south, or points more distant.

As Federal housing funds grew scarce, more contractors were fighting for less money.