Sentence examples for a small flood from inspiring English sources

There was also a small flood of refugees, at 2,000 per day on occasion.

Mr. Borenstein would prevent such a deluge by installing a small flood detector as part of a security system that would also include smoke detection.

Indeed, from "Babe" to, well, "Babe, Pig in the City," the refinement of computer-assisted animation technology has spawned a small flood of animal solidarity pictures.

When I appealed to readers of my blog, Bitten (nytimes.com/bitten), for ideas, I quickly got a small flood, and some of them were uncommon, intriguing and appealing.

THE artist Olafur Eliasson has dyed rivers green in Stockholm, Bremen and Tokyo; unleashed a small flood on the streets of Johannesburg; illuminated the sky of Utrecht with an artificial sun; and lodged an ice floe in tropical Sao Paolo.

Sheikh Hasina won praise for her handling of the emergency, but there are fears that even a small flood this year could create havoc because much of the damage to flood defences from last year has yet to be repaired.Another of Bangladesh's perennial problems is political violence, particularly the violence perpetrated by Marxist and Maoist groups.

One of the alleged attackers is accused of repeatedly gaining access to the control system of the Bowman Avenue Dam, a small flood-control structure in Rye Brook, about 20 miles north of New York City, through a cable modem.

The runoff response to two storm events were simulated; one minor event resulting only in a small-scale flood wave and one major event which inundated parts of the catchment.

There has, though, been a rise in the number of reported small flood events.

In a moment, a gratifying jet of beavery water came arcing out of the pipe, a small flash flood under the cedars, a portable tributary.

Removing small flood control reservoirs (U.S. Soil Conservation Service PL-566 design) resulted in an 82% increase in total phosphorus and a 92% increase in total nitrogen, while the removal of other anthropogenic features resulted in decreased nutrient loading.