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be short of
verb as in lack
verb as in want
Example Sentences
If they are relegated, Ipswich will not be short of offers in the summer to sign their main forward.
O'Mahony has history in this fixture, and given it will be his first start since being replaced by Doris as captain, the Munster veteran will not be short of motivation.
Even if that happens, that total would still be short of the widespread 2 to 4 inches of rain meteorologists say are necessary to comfortably and definitively call an end to the fire season.
With Sociedad in mid-table he is not likely to be short of offers.
Asked whether the estate would be short of cells within three years, even with 14,000 extra places, Mahmood said: "We will run out because even all of that new supply, with the increase in prison population that we will see as a result of that new supply, doesn't help you with the rise in demand, because demand is still rising faster than any supply could catch up with."
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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