This year, however, the stock market has been such a good thing that losers are a scarce item in many portfolios.

When this happens, we assign the scarce item or service more value simply because it is harder to aquire.

Even formerly scarce items, like cooking oil and sugar, were plentiful in state stores at cheap prices.

Cars, refrigerators, television sets and other scarce items regarded as luxuries in Cuba, went first to outstanding workers.

Dorothy warned me that there're a lot of scarce items on Earth.

Nevertheless, some Homer-area farmers hurried to Monroe during the war to trade their cotton for scarce items with the Union.

These items, scarce in the developing world, are needed to implement the training provided by IVUmed.

"We are where you find scarce new items, like FurReal Friends, or get great prices on last year's 2.1 megapixel digital cameras."

These group buys often result in better prices for the individual buyers or ensure that a scarce or obscure item is available for sale.

The Swedish government had the unused stamps destroyed; these scarce items are now eagerly sought collectibles.