Land was relatively abundant and allocated by tribal chiefswithout regard to Western-style property rights.

R&D personnel are in relative abundance but financial resources constrain their contribution to their own societies.

At the time of the industrial revolution, human resources had been relatively scarce but natural resources relatively abundant.

An enrichment facility separates isotopes of uranium to increase the relative abundance, or concentration, of 235U in relation to 238U.

At the outset of the industrial revolution labour used to be relatively scarce and the stock of natural capital relatively abundant.

Iceland is attempting to establish such an economy with hydrogen produced, using its relatively abundant sources of hydropower and geothermal energy.

Over the last two years international prices for most cereals remained under downward pressure owing to relatively abundant supplies and depressed economic conditions in many parts of the world.

Its richness, based on the relative abundance of its natural resources, will remain unrealized as long as economic, social and environmental benefits are not derived from them to improve the livelihood of its large forest-dependent populations.

It is essential to take advantage of the opportunity offered by the current relative abundance of capital in the region, a short-term gain which starts to erode when oil prices fall.

Thus, it is possible that information that can help estimate the relative abundance of benthic fauna in different areas can be used as a proxy for the flux of metals accumulating in the polymetallic nodule deposits and, ultimately, nodule abundance.