"drought" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The archipelago is subject to cyclical droughts; a devastating drought began in 1968 and was broken only briefly in 1975, 1978, 1984, and 1986.
- But there is little profit in the crop, and cyclical droughts bring hardship.
- This is in the context of the real prospect of climate change, cyclical drought and other degrading affects.
- Even for a region that is accustomed to being noticed by the rest of the country only during its cyclical droughts, a region where food shortages have always been a part of life, the mood here today is particularly somber.
- For centuries, isolation and cyclical drought have resulted in famine.
- Like much of Australia, Ballarat experiences cyclical drought and heavy rainfall.
- Libya's GDP grew in 2001 due to high oil prices, the end of a long cyclical drought, and increased foreign direct investment following the suspension of UN sanctions in 1999.
- Indonesia, which has the largest farm area in Southeast Asia, anticipated the cyclical drought and took some preventative measures, Mr.
- Cape Verde has long been a place to leave - a land plagued, as the Pope noted today, by cyclical droughts, infertile soil and a precarious dependency on imports and foreign aid.
- Across the stretch of desert south of the Sahara, governments, trying to relieve the effects of cyclical drought, are insisting that nomads become integrated into sedentary life.
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