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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.