scarce

by a small margin; "they could barely hear the speaker"; "we hardly knew them"; "just missed being hit"; "had scarcely rung the bell when the door flew open"; "would have scarce arrived before she would have found some excuse to leave"- W.B.Yeats

यहाँ पर मुश्किल से कभी बारिश होती है।

Food soon became scarcer and more expensive.