Sentences with phrase «by the famine last»

The Sahelian countries of Africa, where 100,000 persons were felled by famine last year, received relatively little of this surplus food.

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In a paper published recently in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B (Biological Sciences) that looked at demographic data from more than 310,000 Chinese women, Song demonstrated a dramatic sex ratio decrease more than a year after the two - year famine began and lasting about two years after it ended, followed by an equally significant bounce back to pre-famine proportions.

«Many of the investors joining the dividend stampede appear to be motivated by the low interest rates mandated by the Federal Reserve, which have led to a yield famine among traditional income investments like bonds, certificates of deposit and money - market funds,» Zweig writes, adding that others may be chasing performance, since high - yield stocks fared well last year.

In order to counter the abysmal knowledge of previous climatic fluctuations over the last 1000 years shown by some members of the Senate, I am looking for subscribers to fund the sending to 20 selected senators of E Roy Laduries» magisterial book «Times of Feast Times of Famine.

More specifically, a crop famine that has been brought about by the effects of climate change, with corn as the last crop to be cultivated.