1. The area was constantly hit by drought.

2. Whole communities starved to death during the long drought.

3. Hundreds of sheep perished that year because of drought.

4. They are preparing against a drought.

5. Experts believe that the coming drought will be extensive.

6. The land ploughs hard after the drought.

7. The area has been ravaged by drought/floods/war.

8. Mad laughter follows the drought of tears.

9. The drought did a lot of harm to the crops.

10. A fifth year of drought is expected to have dramatic effects on the California economy.

11. It has been the worst drought in the country's history.

12. This would help the families to survive the drought without undue suffering.

13. Thousands of refugees are trapped by war, drought and famine.

14. The drought is becoming increasingly severe.

15. The drought there is the worst in a century.

16. The crops failed because of drought.

17. The drought has made farmers anxious about the harvest.

18. The drought is bearing down very hard on farmers.

19. The river ran dry during the drought.

20. The strawberry harvest failed because of the drought.

21. A week of good rains has broken the drought.

22. Severe drought has afflicted the region.

23. We had to replant after the drought.

24. Hippos are uniquely vulnerable to drought.

25. They are waging warfare with drought.

26. The port is vital to supply relief to millions of drought victims.

27. The water was turned off for several hours each day during the drought.

28. The lakes and wells all dried up during the drought.

29. The south of the country was worst affected by the drought.

30. Farmers and market gardeners have been badly affected by the drought.

1. The area was constantly hit by drought.

2. Whole communities starved to death during the long drought.

3. Hundreds of sheep perished that year because of drought.

4. Experts believe that the coming drought will be extensive.

5. The land ploughs hard after the drought.

6. The area has been ravaged by drought/floods/war.

7. The port is vital to supply relief to millions of drought victims.

8. The water was turned off for several hours each day during the drought.

9. The south of the country was worst affected by the drought.

10. A fifth year of drought is expected to have dramatic effects on the California economy.

11. It has been the worst drought in the country's history.

12. This would help the families to survive the drought without undue suffering.

13. Farmers and market gardeners have been badly affected by the drought.

14. Thousands of refugees are trapped by war, drought and famine.

15. They are waging warfare with drought.

16. The plants are growing in again, despite the drought.

17. The long drought dried up all the wells.

18. The paucity of fruit was caused by the drought.

19. They had to contend against drought.

20. The drought has intensified.

21. The ground is as hard as stone after the drought.

31. Week after week the drought continued.

32. The plants are growing in again, despite the drought.

33. The village has been hit by a devastating drought.

34. The drought had worsened their chances of survival.

35. The drought lasted for several months.

36. And now the drought in Sudan.

37. The long drought was followed by months of famine.

38. The peasants were dismally disheartened by the long drought.

39. The drought has had devastating consequences/effects.

40. Severe drought has compounded food shortages in the region.

41. The reservoir was very low after the long drought.

42. The long drought dried up all the wells.

43. Drought has stunted this year's cereal crop.

44. The paucity of fruit was caused by the drought.

45. The drought has led to widespread loss of life.

46. During the drought the river dried up.

47. Wide cracks appeared in the ground during the drought.

48. The water table has been lowered by drought.

49. The drought there is stretching American resources.

50. The drought has depleted their supply of water.

51. The reservoir was low after the long drought.

52. The drought caused serious shortfalls in the food supply.

53. Famine followed in the wake of the drought.

54. This year severe drought has ruined the crops.

55. The drought could spell disaster for wildlife.

56. The north remained largely unaffected by the drought.

57. Severe drought has afflicted the countryside.

58. A drought is parching much of the country.

59. They had to contend against drought.

60. The drought withered the buds.

61. The ground was bone dry after the drought.

62. The drought is worst in the central African states.

63. The drought spelt economic disaster for the country.

64. The crops failed because of the drought.

65. Large areas of Africa are affected by severe drought.

66. The water was turned off for several hours a day during the drought.

67. Water allotments to farmers were cut back in the drought.

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68. A prolonged drought had necessitated the introduction of water rationing.

69. The familiar spectre of drought and famine has reared its ugly head again.

70. There is a danger that many homes will subside because of the drought.

71. Drought and years of heavy grazing by sheep have completely denuded the hills of grass.

72. Foreign aid is badly needed to ameliorate the effects of the drought.

73. The UN wants to send food aid to 10 countries in Africa severely affected by the drought.

74. Some of the newer plants in the garden died during the drought.

75. If the climate gets drier, then the logical conclusion is that even more drought will occur.

76. The severe drought has led to a hosepipe ban in eastern England.

77. These weeks of drought have once again raised the spectre of widespread famine.

78. After three years of drought, the water in the lake had reached an all-time low.

79. Drought and famines have killed up to two million people here.

80. The country's entire grain harvest has been hit by drought.

81. The degree of drought is largely a function of temperature and drainage.

82. Millions will face starvation next year as a result of the drought.

83. In fact many food crops failed because of the drought.

84. The drought has intensified.

85. They were already under stress, thanks to the aftershock of last year's drought.

86. Outbreaks of disease occurred in the wake of the drought.

87. Truckloads of rice have been brought in to the areas affected by drought.

88. The combined effects of the war and the drought resulted in famine.

89. If the drought continues there's going to be a famine.

90. The drought has helped make this a disastrous year for Somalia.

91. Millions of people are threatened with starvation as a result of drought and poor harvests.

92. The summer drought has dealt a heavy blow to the government's economic record.

93. Many areas of Africa have suffered severe drought this year.

94. He said drought had led to severe crop failure for the second year running.

95. In fact, the panic is overdone. As the map shows, the drought has been confined to the south and east of Britain.

96. Ethiopia and, to a lesser extent/degree, Kenya will be badly affected by the drought.

97. If the drought continues, deaths will occur on a massive scale.

98. The people most immediately affected by the drought are the farmers themselves.

99. Drought and war have raised the spectre of food shortages for up to 24 million African people.

100. The timely rain after a long time of drought will certainly bring on the crops.

101. The ground is as hard as stone after the drought.

102. An underground water supply is good insurance against drought.

103. Farmers' anxiety over the drought has mounted.

104. The four-year drought has caused widespread famine across Afghanistan.

105. The four-year drought threatens two million people with starvation.

106. Deforestation has been shown to cause floods and drought.

107. It was overtaken by a long cyclical drought.

108. The reason may be the long continued drought.

109. We had a drought, grasshoppers, crickets.

110. But most everything evens out during the summer drought.

111. Heavy rains in March alleviated the drought conditions.

112. Drought had desolated the farming town.

113. The reservoir ran dry during the drought.

114. Plants under stress from drought, disease or nutrient deficiency are the most likely to attract insect pests.

115. Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson is hoping he could be the answer to his side's goal drought.

116. They have the characteristic of never running dry in the longest drought or freezing in the coldest frost.

117. The districts affected by the drought will face a predicted shortfall of 7.5 million gallons a day.

118. The film deals with the nomadic desert people of the Sahel, whose plight has worsened in the recent years of drought.

119. The official reason for the decision was the persistence of a severe drought, the worst on record.

120. That was when drought dried up the lawns, playing havoc with lawnmower sales and profits.

121. Hardly anyone had forecast that the drought would last so long.

122. With critical power shortages throughout the region, the timing could not be worse for a looming emergency drought declaration.

123. He calls the drought the worst natural disaster to hit Texas this century.

124. Farmers have faced the double whammy of a freeze and a drought this year.

125. Studies link the drought to a sunspot cycle not due to end until the millennium.

126. Then there was a long drought which produced a very poor harvest.

127. During the same period, the city experienced its first severe drought.

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128. In his benevolent aspect he is the source of rain and hence petitioned to alleviate drought, and also to prevent meningitis.

129. As El Ni o ebbs away, drought follows the torrential rain.

130. For months, attention has been riveted on a devastating drought now in its fourth year.

131. The drought and consequent famine struck most of the country.

132. Drought resulted in decreased root growth and slower breakdown of soil litter, an important source of magnesium for forest trees.

133. The worst drought in 30 years and an upsurge in fighting has created huge armies of refugees.

134. Another issue highlighted in the report was the alleged importation of toxic maize as part of a drought relief effort.

135. Others plan to leave the Southwest for northern states untouched by the drought that has left Arizona a tinderbox.

136. There has been a drought all winter, and the townsfolk have been out into the countryside to help water the crops.

137. Many of its own people have been displaced by civil war or uprooted by drought or flood.

138. They can survive long periods of drought encased in mud, until the next rainy season.

139. The heat, and the drought, have set this country on fire.

140. Then came elm disease, followed by smartly by the drought of 1976, which killed off many of the beeches.

141. Plants with well developed root systems will survive the drought better.

142. Furthermore, a temporary local heroin drought was created in the borough.

143. As the drought intensified, Mulholland begged the city fathers to end their abject deification of growth.

144. Under natural conditions some bands die out due to severe drought, disease, or increased predation.

145. Roots of wheat which have been stunted by excessive water in spring will be less able to withstand a summer drought.

146. That ended the Flyers' goal drought at 135 minutes, 28 seconds.

147. The drought that struck the West in the late 1880s did not occlude the entire continent.

148. It puts down roots 10 feet deep, easily withstanding drought and even frequent fires.

149. At the same time, a drought affected the area, and heliotrope had time to grow and go to seed.

150. Conditions have been made worse by intense heat and the continuing drought.

151. Keating and state weather officials said at least 5 inches is needed in the wheat belt to end the drought.

152. Prices are rising because of a drought and the escalating cost of grain for cattle feed.

153. A four-year drought in East Anglia and extra demands for water from a burgeoning local population have lowered the water table.

154. The most immediate threat remains the current drought and the danger of a flood of refugees.

155. A serious drought in early 1989 affected agricultural crops, in particular paddy rice and jute.

156. The earth in the flower bed in front of the window was grey and powdery, the result of several weeks of drought.

157. This is useful, because by comparing previous drought years like 1976, you can draw a lot of conclusions.

158. In this country that has been ravaged by civil war even more than by drought, security is shaky.

159. She would have welcomed a raging tempest or a blistering drought - anything to relieve the endless tedium of her situation.

160. Kansas was emptied by the drought and the white winter, Nevada by irrigation companies gone defunct.

161. Worms are a staple diet and these have been in short supply due to the summer drought.

162. By the end of the 1980s, drought had again intensified the need for emergency relief.

163. The famine was caused by drought, which led to widespread crop failure.

164. Philip Holmes is keeping it topped up with water during the drought conditions.

165. A severe drought has caused most of the corn crop to fail.

166. He also ordered the government to buy more school lunch beef to bolster cattle prices, now plummeting because of a drought.

167. One year the burden might be drought, another a good harvest, and so on.

168. Neighboring Nelson and Walsh counties also suffered millions of dollars in crop damage from the storms -- and drought.

169. Years of drought, crop failure and migration have meant that land is continually withdrawn from active production.

170. The country is in the depths of a recession, made worse by the worst drought in living memory.

171. They must be kept evenly moist in drought with the garden hose.

172. However, prolonged drought, and in Matebeleland armed conflict, have limited its effectiveness.

173. But water chiefs were still saying we have not got over the drought.

174. Some have gone to expats, causing a property boom and a total drought of flats for rent.

175. The remaining trees are stressed, not only from the fire but from a record drought in central Arizona.

176. For all the woes that assailed us during the drought, I was happy, much happier than would have seemed possible.

177. And please, do not dramatise the drought in the Horn.

178. There has been a sharp rise in infant mortality since the drought began.

179. The drought has affected more than a million people in Henan and 280,000 head of livestock.

180. But then the village is hit by a devastating drought.

181. Exacerbated by drought, water abstraction has increased by 70 percent over the past three years to satisfy consumer demand.

182. The drought has ended at last, and the reservoirs are filling up again.

183. Successful farming requires equilibrium between sun and rain, drought and flood.

184. The way the year is running we could have a drought at midwinter and snowdrops at harvest time.

185. Or, like Californians in a drought, should we perhaps raise the tops on our convertibles and welcome a little rain?

186. Here, drought is the crux of the matter and whether it is caused by or causes land degradation.

187. Frank Keating declared a drought emergency and instituted a statewide ban on outdoor burning.

188. After floods and a drought, what else can Mother Nature do to us?

189. If the drought continues, officials fear it could drive cattle producers and farmers out of business permanently.

190. Already, he says, it is worse than the drought of 1956, once considered the definitive Texas dry spell.

191. I visited the site in late September, at the end of the summer drought, with the land grey and lifeless.

192. In the early 1980s, there was another severe drought cycle but the adverse impact was less.

193. A severe drought caused most of the crops to fail, then winds reaching hurricane force destroyed what was left.

194. The government gives compensation for all kinds of animals lost during drought or flood but not for sheep and goats.

195. The Red River Valley soil is bone dry after three years of drought.

196. The temperature and drought that summer were as severe as the country had seen since the mid-1930s.

197. The last few years have seen widespread damage to homes through storms, floods, extreme cold and subsidence caused by drought.

198. Some farmers made enough money to buy more land and survive drought years and stay in business.

199. Their ten-year water rights are up for renegotiation in 1997, and will be affected by the drought.

200. The sacrifices they made, along with the end of the drought in 1992, helped bring back the ducks.

201. Drought had prompted ranch manager Matt Swan to move most of the cattle from the 7-L Camp to greener pastures.

202. These animals possess the remarkable ability to withstand intense heat and drought for prolonged periods of time.

203. One of the consequences of the 1988 drought was a sharp reduction in the set-aside programme.

204. To end their drought, the Lakers had to first lose the halftime momentum for the second time this week.

205. The drought could not have come at a worse time for Texas cattle ranchers.

206. This year a severe drought threatens the lives of 3m people, half the population.

207. Britain is now experiencing the longest drought on record since 1745.

208. Drought has caused further problems in the agricultural sector, both for domestic consumption and exports.

209. This summer, the situation has been exacerbated by prolonged drought.

210. Across the state, corn crops failed due to the drought.

211. Her health began to fail during the recent drought and as a result she had to give up her job.

212. The previous warnings in the Horn were, like the present one, prompted by severe drought.

213. After that, depending on the region, comes the danger of drought and crop failure.

214. Then a summer drought parched the land, turning green prairies a dusty yellow brown.

215. Never before had his country had such a devastating drought.

216. This is commonly blamed on a prolonged drought during the amelioration of climate following the last glaciation.

217. A drought caused agricultural production to plummet 11 % in 1995(Sentence dictionary), driving up food prices and retarding overall economic growth.

218. Merchants who bought food in surplus areas for sale in drought districts were shot for profiteering.

219. In this vast Adrar desert, which borders Western Sahara, an inexorable drought governs nature and man.

220. If they should start dying, the long-term consequences of the drought could be catastrophic.

221. Other factors include two years of drought, acid rain, run-off from contaminated land and reduced governmental expenditure on sewage treatment.

222. Not long after my first visit, Navajo country suffered a severe drought.

223. Development economists have long argued that drought need not lead to famine; well-stocked inventories and effective distribution can limit the damage.

224. Some of these isolated populations are subject to predation, others to starvation, flooding, severe winters or summer drought.

225. Unfortunately, through a combination of drought, generosity and extravagance, he lost this property as well.

226. Four years of drought and rapidly declining business had left all five branches of the Inyo County Bank severely weakened.

227. Agricultural production fell by 10.8 percent, largely due to the effects of the country's worst drought in 50 years.

228. The drought has already set one project, a national food reserve, back by at least a year.

229. United Nations experts say as many as four million people are facing famine after a severe drought and crop failure.

230. Both places represent semiarid savannas and have repeatedly been affected by drought and famine.

231. Elation returned after 27 months' drought when he won his first ranking tournament at the Mercantile Credit in Bournemouth last January.

232. When they shed leaves because of drought, trees do not usually bother with all the razzmatazz of colouring them beforehand.

233. In west Texas the drought has brought fears that the land will turn to desert.

234. Only if there is a bad drought and even then the women rarely come.

235. It s nutritional quality decreases markedly in the winter months and also when we have drought conditions such as we had last summer.

236. The recent outbreak may have been associated with weather conditions, especially a protracted drought followed by occasional heavy rains.

237. An initial theory is that the baobabs contracted a fungal disease after rains earlier this year ended almost a decade of drought.

238. It is caused not only by drought but also by high world food prices and use of land for cash-crop exports.

239. Lexus, hurting from a new-model drought was actually down 4% for the quarter.

240. Cold and drought tolerant, the new variety is adaptable to north China.

241. In fact, the postseason drought in Houston is becoming downright Saharan.

242. It's an area where people are suffering from the combined effects of the livestock ban, four years of drought, and overexploitation of natural resources.

243. "If my farm is far from the rain gauge and the rain gauge faces a drought and I don't, or if I face a drought and the rain gauge doesn't, then I'm not covered," he said.

244. After seven years of drought, and many more years of over-exploitation and pollution, he argued that the only hope of restoring the river to health lies in a complete overhaul of how it is managed.

245. And this study also provided theoretical evidence and plant materials for breeding the new Kentucky bluegrass varieties tolerant to drought and salt.