Sentences with phrase «few dry years»

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It's an emergency surgical intervention meant to undo damage caused by human activity both in the oceans and on dry land, and it has been shown to work — bringing dead reef sections back from the edge in just a few years.

Ultraviolet cell phone disinfectants, bloodstain testers, and a brand new use for dry ice are just a few of the pitches at this year's Rice University Business Plan Competition.

Venture capital has largely dried up in Russia — partially because there was so much venture capital activity in the last few years (activity between 2012 and 2013 was 10 times that between 2010 and 2011, Chikhachev says) but also due to some problems inherent in the Russian economy.

Over the past few years, though, that gravy train has begun to dry up, a trend that accelerated as President Donald Trump began to make good on campaign promises to restrict immigration.

Has any financial story been more relentlessly covered in the last few years than the market's worries about bond market liquidity drying up?

Its operations evolved to include other things over the years, but dependent on federal contracts, MSE struggled when those federal «earmarks» dried up a few years ago.

-LRB-...) Over the past few years, though, that gravy train has begun to dry up, a trend that accelerated as President Donald Trump began to make good on campaign promises to restrict immigration.

Innovation dried up a few years ago, and its wearable fitness trackers steadily lost market share to more advanced smartwatches like the aforementioned Apple Watch and Alphabet's Android devices.

Improving Your Python Productivity I've been programming in python for a few years now, and I'm still often amazed by how clear and DRY well written Python code can be.

A few years ago I began to feel dry in my faith, eventually realizing that I had allowed myself to be swept up in the harried - even missional - crowd, missing Christ's heart of compassion for the individual.

Bottom line, a few taste - tests later, I'm confident that this is the version of sun - dried tomato pesto I will be making and loving for many years to come.

Now, dried fruits have come a long way in recent years in both availability and quality but there are a few things to keep in mind when choosing your fruit.

I've only begun using lentils more in the last few years, but I love how much quicker they cook compared to regular dried beans.

A few years ago, it'd been years since I'd had the stomach flu, and I said something to the effect of how I * almost * wanted to get sick so I could sit on couch, watch movies and munch on dry Corn Chex... which apparently sounded oddly appealing to me, though who knows why I couldn't have done that without being sick.

As a child and up until a few years ago, I didn't like dried fruit and nuts at all.

I discovered sun dried tomatoes a few years back and simply can't get enough of them.

Every year I make this cornbread stuffing recipe and a few days prior I make the cornbread, cut it up, and let it dry.

If you've been a long - time reader (or you just stumbled upon this recipe), you should know that I've not only partnered with Sunsweet for a few years now, but my family and I are big fans of this delicious dried fruit.

For the past few years I was a fan of Dandy Blend, which is a coffee substitute made with dandelion root, chicory, and a few other ingredients that are processed, freeze dried and turned into a powder that makes a pretty decent instant latte, without any actual coffee in it.

for the few weeks of the year they're around and wow, dried.

A few years ago Marilyn Beard of Just Making Noise wrote about how she was drying orange slices.

Dehydrator: This guy has been kind of neglected in my kitchen the past few years (I mainly use it to make sprouted buckwheat crisps and to dry grapes into plump raisins in the fall), but since this blog has such a big archive of delicious raw dishes that call for time in the dehydrator, I'm including it in this list.

A few years back when I first began tinkering around with Apple Crisp, one thing that would get me stumped is how to get the apples baked soft enough without getting too dried out.

With some streaks of hot, dry temperatures in the summer, mildew management was easier than in the last few years.

When I first came across the oven I was reminded of a project I did a few years ago ---- sun drying tomatoes in my car.

OK... although it's many years after the original post... I made these last night w / a few variations: I swapped out 1/2 cp of ww flour for rolled oats, used an approximate amount of fresh chopped pineapple instead of the apples, used nonfat greek yogurt, forgot to cream the sugar with the butter and just added it to the dry ingredients after I had «creamed» the butter and egg -LRB-?!)

We've said countless times that we'll give him the benefit of the doubt because of the stadium debt etc. but now we have been in a strong position financially for a few years and that excuse has well and truly dried up.

This is a bit of a generalization based on children I've known over the past few years, but it seems that children who are over the age of 15 — 18 months or so when the milk dries up have such an emotional attachment to nursing that they want to continue to do it even though there's no more milk for them.

I started using the Dryel at home dry cleaning kit a few years ago when my dry cleaning bills were getting out of control.

My daughter woke up with a dry diaper a few weeks ago (she is almost 1 year) and I decided to put her on the potty and I was so surprised when she peed.

Up until a few years ago, AIOs were a challenge because they were made up of many layers of fabric sewn together and took forever to dry.

Very few children have dry nights before they are three years old.

The team found neonatal mice with the mutations had normal - appearing skin, and the dry itchy skin of dermatitis did not develop until the mice were a few months old, the equivalent of a young adult in human years.

But don't worry, we've got a few more Easy Peasises products to give a try this year — stay tuned for newborn lil squish and the Dry Nights diaper!

Now his on soya milk until his 1 years old then I will transfers him to cows milk, he willingly drinks more milk 1 in the morning, 3 pm snack at bedtime and sometimes at midnight or he just sleeps right through, which is bliss for me lol my problem is my breasts don't feel empty but not engorged which is very strange because with my first daughter I only breast fed for 3 weeks and it dried up within a few days.

OGS has been tracking weather data over the past few years to plot out what care is required to keep the ice pristine, regardless of whether the temperature is 10 below and dry or 50 degrees and humid.

In 1982, the last district, Dwyfor, in western Gwynedd, went «wet» and it was thought that the influence of the Sabbatarian temperance movement had expired and few referendums were called, but surprisingly a further referendum was called in Dwyfor in 1989 and the area went «dry» for another seven years on a 9 % turnout.

He said: «People work hard and pay taxes and suddenly with a few weeks notice Europe can say we need that money... The economic problems of recent years have turned Europe from quite a dry constitutional issue for most people to quite a real live issue for people.»

The imminent threat of Ghana's water resources running dry in a few years gets scarier by the day.

The findings have implications for agricultural fields that are poorly drained or flood for a few weeks of the year before drying out, Hall said.

The cycle of dry spells that Pakistan has suffered for the past few years, terminated by a massive torrent, aligns almost precisely with trends predicted in the assessment reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

New measurements of atmospheric loss by NASA's MAVEN probe should help scientists determine how a planet with rushing water and a temperate climate a few billion years ago transformed into a cold, dry desert.

«They didn't just put it on the blackboard, do a few dry runs, and kick it in the air,» says James Oberg, a spaceflight consultant who spent 22 years at NASA mission control.

But once the local forest is gone, income from timber typically dries up, the researchers believe; many farms and cattle ranches are abandoned after a few years because the nutrient - poor soil rapidly becomes depleted.

In effect, the plants had shifted to flowering a few days earlier to take full advantage of the short «wet» season in dry years.

For years, patients suffering from dry eye have had few options.

Funding for gun control research had dried up a few years earlier.

This gradual shift in the Sahara's overall climate contradicts a common theory that the region dried rapidly over a few hundred years, and provides clues about a potential re-greening triggered by global warming, Kröpelin says.

Take spoonbills, which thrived in ponds and ditches at Oostvaardersplassen until a dry season a few years ago eliminated their habitat.

«Forests of the Congo basin are known to be resilient to moderate climate change because they have been exposed to dry conditions in the past few hundred years,» Saatchi said.