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be short of

verb as in lack

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If they are relegated, Ipswich will not be short of offers in the summer to sign their main forward.

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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.

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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.

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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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