Preposition: by

• %: In response to members ' questions: On average during 2001/02 the Agency was understaffed by 10 %.

Adjective complement with noun phrase

• leave: Stolen Up to 70 % of staff in DTCs can be stolen from the NHS, leaving NHS hospitals even more understaffed.

Modifies a noun

• school: GVI volunteers also assist the understaffed schools in the region.

• ward: I have spent my day caring for around 30 patients with infectious diarrhea and vomiting on an understaffed ward.

• unit: For many of us this just clarifies the reality of working in understaffed units or organizations.

• center: She serves as caretaker at understaffed adoption centers and has adopted nine children into her own family.

• reader: My point is that in an understaffed chuch readers, retired clergy and local ordinands are increasingly being asked to do the same job.

• team: How in heaven's name do already understaffed teams cope with key individuals being moved away from them?

Modifying Another Word

• so: There is a level below which nursing homes are so understaffed that quality care can not be provided.

• seriously: For example, some areas have had the benefi t of increased staffing whilst others have been seriously understaffed.

• already: How in heaven's name do already understaffed teams cope with key individuals being moved away from them?

• chronically: EC Delegations are known to be chronically understaffed and under-performing.

• grossly: And finally, with regards to security, the Justices found the prison to be grossly understaffed.

• severely: There is mass exodus of nurses from the NHS, already severely understaffed.