1. Even without new seed varieties or fancy drip-feed irrigation, investment should help farmers.

2. Drip-feed rate has a definite effect on the chemotherapy of patients with cardict and cancer disease.

3. The potential benefits of new seeds, drip-feed irrigation and farm credit are vast.

4. It is a dreadful one. Though it lists several areas where inspectors have outstanding questions, it allows Iran to drip-feed information.

5. Gaz, which only 18 months ago was full of acquisitive ambition, is also subsisting on a drip-feed from the Kremlin.

6. Most European policymakers now recognise that Greece cannot possibly repay its debts, and Germany's politics prevent an endless drip-feed of transfers from its taxpayers to Greece's creditors.

7. Over the past couple of months, there has been a steady drip-feed of poor economic news that has dented hopes of a sustained recovery.