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Things are very dry right now - extremely dry. So if anyone does any ditch or field burning, they have to know that it may move faster than they anticipate.

The wind just hindered us today, to be honest. As dry as it is, it's not unusual at all.

The way it was made we are happy with. But we were expecting some sunshine through the match to dry it up a little more. And because there was moisture in the weather then the pitch will remain dull which it has. Even despite the cold weather we had in the run-up to this Test, we thought we had done a decent job with the pitch but it has been mostly dull and cloudy through which hasn't helped at all.

The water levels are low, and some of the fish are dying, but the buzzards are eating them. The only question is, are the water levels exceptionally low, just due to a normal dry season, or are they accentuated because of other factors, which may be due to human beings?

There will not be a dry eye. I think the stars are lining up.

These are also the people who want health and comfort establishments near their homes -- drugstores, grocery stores, nice gas stations, dry cleaners. These things are not yet available in the Downtown area.

The schedule of the terminal's opening has yet to be decided. We fear that there are legal issues that may be jeopardized if we open or do a dry run.

It was very slippery. We thought the road would dry out quicker than it did...I think we chose a tyre that was too hard. I'm disappointed by my gap to the leaders but that's how it is.

It was very dry and very hot (this summer). Last year, it was rainy and cold, and who wants to swim in the cold weather?

It was very weird. There were some wet spots. I put rain tires, dry tires, rain tires. I kept on going back and forth. It was very hard to find balance. Toward the end I felt comfortable.

The situation is extremely serious. In the next day or so all bread supplies will dry up. There is very little else around in terms of rice, which is also short in supply. Bread is the staple diet for Palestinians. It is also the food the poorest people so if that's not available people will start to go hungry.

The studio didn't ask them to learn their trade, they just worked them, and when that personality or that gimmick or whatever they had ran dry at the box office, they were dropped and out.

The third quarter was our demise tonight. We continued to take the ball to the ball to the basket, but we just came up empty. When you score four points in one quarter, that's definitely a dry spell.

The thinking is that with the major U.S. renewals coming in July, we should keep our tinder dry in terms of writing catastrophe business and feed the company with group business to build it up.

I've accompanied several dying people on their travels, and the desert seems to be a favored destination. It is very hot and dry and lyrical in its own way.

Tears are a river that takes you somewhereTears lift your boat off the rocks, off dry ground, carrying it downriver to someplace better.

Sometimes a player of his caliber goes through a long dry spell. He's worked really hard and fought through a lot of adversity.

Right now we are in sort of a lull in the action. We have a weak upper ridge over the Hawaiian islands and that is helping to keep things relatively quiet now. We will get a chance to dry out a little bit before things turn wetter later in the weekend.

Reader, persons who have never witnessed a hurricane, such as not unfrequently desolates the sultry climates of the south, can scarcely form an idea of their terrific grandeur. One would think that, not content with laying waste all on land, it must needs sweep the waters of the shallows quite dry to quench its thirst.

Our computer simulation said a second and third was possible, based on our Friday dry running. The race win was never at any stage predicted by our system.

Our donors have helped many people live through this drought, but it would be a cruel escape, if those who lost the most only suffer more in the months ahead because contributions dry up. We must stay the course, and help these people recover rather than abandon them because of the rains.

O sweet September, they first breezes bring the dry leaf's rustle and the squirrel's laughter, the cool fresh air whence health and vigor spring and promise of exceeding joy hereafter.

Often a high pressure system drives the winds. The winds come off the mountain passes, the air heats up and becomes very dry and can be very strong.

Normally, I would not split the center into two places, but here it works out. I believe this address (800 Westchester) is going to attract the people who want to be in a building with squash courts and a dry cleaner, and we'll still have a space for those clients who don't need all the high-end amenities,

A fire needs three things to survive: fuel (like weeds or dry grass), oxygen and a heat source. A lot of grass fires are preventable.

Stories of all lengths and depths come from different parts of the cave. For a novel, you must lay in mental, physical and spiritual provision as for a siege or for a time of hectic explosions, while a short story is, or can be, a steady, timed flame like the lighting of a blow lamp on a building site full of dry tinder.

Some teachers are upset because it wasn't as smooth as it should have been. But this was a dry run for us.

Some people think they've got to have a brilliant business idea, but they don't. There are new tax preparers and dry cleaners going into business all the time,

So that we can make determinations about the impact on the lands of increased production and determine what needs to be done in light of the very dry seasons we had anticipated in the past.

Oil leaks out and builds up. The engine is hot, and there's dry grass and leaves around. You get a fire.

Once the ground gets saturated, we get slides. We're just trying to dry out and get ready for the next one.

Dreaming when Dawn's Left Hand was in the sky I heard a Voice within the Tavern cry: 'Awake, my Little ones, and fill the Cup Before Life's Liquor in its Cup be dry

Anyway, it was at the Electric Cowboy and there were about 180 of us there and they gave us all a number. I had to sing a cappella and that always makes me really nervous. I thought my mouth was going to get dry or I was going to crack a note. I really thought, 'I'm fixin' to ruin this deal right here.' But I sang 30 seconds of Dwight Yoakam's cover of the Elvis Presley song 'Little Sister' and I made it through it. Then they pulled me off to the side and asked me to come back the next day. They only asked 18 of us to come back, and that was pretty good.

Any expedition visiting in the dry season would probably discover many more butterflies. I suspect there are some areas like this in Africa, and am sure that there are similar places in South America.

As dry as it was, I don't think it will hurt anything.

As contact with the enemy draws nearer, anticipation sharpens into fear. Its physical effects are striking. The heart beats rapidly, the face shines with sweat and the mouth grows dry - so dry that men often emerge from battle with blackened mouths and chapped lips.

The big reason people are still buying the racks is that there are certain items that you just don't put through the electric dryer. Another is that in the winter the rack can act as a humidifier if you place wet clothes on the top and allow them to dry until the next day.

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As long as you're not putting salt on a dry surface, it usually sticks. We anticipate the salt will be working fine.

That shows just how big those storms were, and how dry February was.

All Americans knew was 'The Joy Luck Club' and children of dry cleaners trying to assimilate. The Asia that I was seeing was a world of people who are incredibly sophisticated, and I wanted to represent that side.

The Mister Hyde is down here, below 8,000 ft, on the Front Range and out on the Eastern Plains and in Southern Colorado where the fuels tend to be as dry as match sticks.

You would expect that with the lack of rainfall. It's pretty dry out there right now.

You take a turn and you think it's the river, and all of a sudden you're on dry land and you have to back-paddle.

This is a serious, serious issue, ... And unfortunately there's no indication that there is going to be any rain this week. We have very dry conditions, low humidity, lots of wind.

This is pro golf now. Driving it long and straight is obviously a serious advantage. There are still ways to get around it and this golf course, if it plays dry and firm a regular hitter will still have a great chance this week.

This isn't really all that unusual. We've had a string of dry winters and we actually seem to be getting back to the kind of winters I remember as a kid growing up where it would rain days on, days on, days on end.

The University is very concerned about the possibility of fire on our campus. We have hundreds of acres of land that are extremely dry due to the recent drought. Even areas that are usually somewhat wet (like Groundhog Park) are in a very dry and fire prone condition right now.

This cool, dry weather is ideal for the apple crop. The cooler mornings and evenings are perfect for sweetening 'em up.

This bill brings a level playing field to all casinos whether they are over the water or on dry land and ensures that the tidelands program will continue to improve the quality of life on the Gulf Coast,

They were knocked off their feet. People were clapping and cheering for them. There was weeping and hugging, all this emotion. There wasn't a dry eye in the place.

This has been a very dry winter. Normally we'd see snow melting from the hills and running into the streams.

This has been a monthly event all winter: a hot, dry day with westerly winds. As the mountains have been receiving the moisture, we've been receiving the wind.

Although we have had rain in recent days, it dries up quickly. The underbrush remains dry and is easily sparked.

Although nobody wants to have a dry year, it's really beneficial for the waterfowl habitat to be dry. That's really good for the soil, trees and other plants to be dry.

A lot of the rain ran off and a week later, we were dry again. We didn't get rainfall that was spread out through the growing year, which is what really hurt us.

American citizens are fed up. Border agents have been left out to dry by an administration that isn't doing a thing to solve the very dangerous situation brewing at the border.

A lot of those are in pretty decayed state. We have dry rot and damage associated with water.

They have been run very dry and that's a huge problem, actually,

They got hot to start the season, but had a dry spell during the middle of the season. They are now starting to play good baseball, again.

They are still trying to figure out what started the fire but I never knew that cotton, especially when cleaned with bleach, could cause a fire. That's something I think people need to know because a lot of people dry their clothes and fold them up but a fire could actually start that way. I had never heard that before this.

They are representative of the fact that it is extremely dry in these areas.

There wasn't a dry eye in the place. I realized immediately that his daughter had a gift for speaking.

There wasn't a dry eye in that locker room.

There will be a rather dramatic shift from the typically dry months of March and April, to the rainy season that is underway by June.

There's a lot of concern about the aquifers in Arkansas. The two major ones are showing signs of going dry. We have the ability to pump water, but it's so dry that there's no water to pump.

This is typical of what we are going to see for the remainder of the season. Not necessarily these record temperatures, but certainly a warm and dry winter.

This is the time that even if there's not a lot of wind, because it's so dry it's not going to take much. The wind just makes it more of a problem. The positive is there's a little bit of moisture in the air.

They rehearse that, they train it, they do dry runs.

They're expecting and predicting a very dry early summer, so we need to begin thinking about how we're going to prepare.

There's a watch change at two in the morning, ... So seven people who have been on deck for four hours in immense waves and windchill get to go down below. They're covered in sleet. They're bruised. They're exhausted. And they've got four hours before they're due back on deck. They clamber out of their dry suits. They lay out their moldy sleeping bags on the bunks on the high side of the boat, and they get in. They've already used up 30 minutes. After another half hour, the wind shifts, and the guys on deck need to tack the boat. That means the guys down below have to wake up, grab their sleeping bags, walk across the boat, and lay out on the other side. Now they've lost even more sleep.

There's been an odd month which has had above average but it's been a notable dry period. There are two winter periods included and it is that what creates the real concern within the water industry.

There's been a lot of misinformation out there. I think they're leaving a lot of people high and dry at very short notice.

There's enough cold air coming down across the lake to lift plenty of lake effect snow, but the air is so dry that it's not happening." ()

At first we thought we were going to get dry lightning, but it's real rain,

Ask me (Sunday). I guess one thing is that the field will be better. You don't want to have a mistake made that maybe wouldn't be made on a dry field.

About 17 dry stations that we have stopped at, a lot of places won't even let you in the store.

It's just made it impossible to do almost anything constructive. It was good to get on a fairly dry surface and actually play. And we played pretty well.

It's just really dry out there right now.

It's extremely frustrating to sit around and look at the slopes and see dry grass where typically they should be covered in white. The hope is still there that we'll still be able to have a good season, at least the latter half.

It's extremely dry and about every other day it's extremely windy. You put those in a combination and it's a dangerous combination. I'm concerned it may get worse before it gets better.

It wasn't terribly inspiring. It was nice to play on a dry field, but it was not our best outing. The girls just played through to the end.

It was the height of the dry season and we set off early in the morning on what was supposed to be a 3-hour drive followed by a 6-kilometer walk. The drive itself eventually became 12-1/2 hours because we had to cut our way through the jungle and create a whole new road to where we thought we were going.

It was terrible. I just remember the floor being so wet. You had to put a towel down to stay dry when you got out of your clothes. Your equipment hung on little hooks instead of in a stall. It definitely made you uncomfortable as a visitor. You weren't pampered at all.

It's a cold, dry miserable place today. But we have got these tantalizing clues that, in the past, it used to be warmer and wetter.

It is very dry and very windy and ash can easily come off of a cigarette. We need to be really careful.

It's a good year for moving sheep into barns for lambing. Remember to keep the sheep in clean, dry pens, free from drafts. There needs to be good ventilation to avoid pneumonia. We've just been spoiled in recent years by fairly easy winters.

It's a double-edged sword. That's the way it's going to be when we eventually transition from a dry period in late spring to early summer.

It's a nice crop of apples out there. The apples are a little smaller because of the lack of rain, but maybe a little sweeter because of the warm dry weather.

It played a lot tougher, the wind was blowing from different directions. It was more like a U.S. Open course, where it gets dry on the weekend and today the greens got really firm. It's still the best course we play on tour.

It's typically dry this time of year. One day of showers or thunderstorms and then we're looking at a surplus of rain around here.

It's usually after we see about a week of 70-degree weather that we start to see a problem. It usually is when you have a wet spring followed by a warm, dry summer. That's what we had in 2003 when we had our worst outbreak.

For hip boots, make sure they aren't dry rotted or cracked.

For many years, the standard hose and line size for dry bulk was four inches. New tanks are being built with five-inch lines. Some aggressive shippers have changed their receiving piping to five inches as well. This shortens unloading time by as much as 15 minutes, greatly reducing costs.

For consumers, the home-equity fountain of youth is about to dry up.

For a first time out on a sunny day on a dry field, I was real pleased. Overall I was real proud of the way we played today. We put some runs on the board, and we had guys who had some good, key hits at certain times.

It just is playing different this year being fast. We haven't played it like this in a while where it's been dry like this.

It's almost like scooping thick mud, but it'll be dry instead of wet.

It looks pretty dry for the next week.

It looks favorable as far as planting season goes, at least the beginning of it. Soil levels are normal ... despite dry conditions in the last year. It looks to be a very mild period coming up for the next two weeks, above normal. And it's a little drier than usual, which is generally good for planting.