By the time that the 21st Brigade arrived back in Australia, they were heavily depleted, with only 44 per cent of its authorised strength.

Disease and fatigue also heavily depleted their infantry, with more casualties being suffered from illnesses than combat.

The pipeline had to be built because water supplies needed by heavy residential development in the county were heavily depleted and highly contaminated.

Danbury paid Dryden his full salary as poet laureate from 1673-77 even though the treasury was heavily depleted at the time.

The central Luzon revolutionaries in the north were heavily depleted and were on the verge of losing their war.

Currently, sturgeon stocks are heavily depleted and under constant pressure from poaching.

Over the next decade, the forests surrounding Buffalo City were heavily depleted.

Mr President, one of the key characteristics of the global fishing situation at the moment is that stocks worldwide are heavily depleted.

Visitors interested in fishing now have to go deep into the wilderness since the rivers around Petropavlovsk have been heavily depleted.

The legal local sea cucumber and lobster fisheries are heavily depleted and may be close to collapse.