"deadly famines" is a grammatically correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It can be used to refer to severe and widespread food shortages that result in significant loss of life. Example: The country was devastated by deadly famines, leaving thousands without food and water.
In the late 1960s, M.S. Swaminathan, a plant geneticist, helped design and lead the Green Revolution, a huge development effort that in just a few years brought food self-sufficiency to India, which had suffered from deadly famines for decades.
In many Chinese families, it is difficult to get parents and grandparents who were raised during the deadly famines and deprivations of the 1950's to stop overfeeding their children.
There has not been a single deadly famine in India since independence.
Thousands were sent through secret smuggling pipelines that date back to the deadly famine two decades ago.
After a deadly famine in the mid-1990s and, in recent weeks, a bungled currency confiscation, he has no interest in claiming to stand for material prosperity.
Like hundreds of thousands of hungry North Koreans who have sneaked into China illegally, Mr. Yoon and his wife first came to find food, escaping a deadly famine in their homeland.
A deadly famine ensued and between 600,000 and 2.5 million people perished.
In September 2011, Biden lent her support to USAID's FWD campaign, a push for awareness surrounding the deadly famine, war, and drought affecting over 13 million people in the Horn of Africa.
North Korea suffered a deadly famine in the 1990s and has relied on international food aid, but support has fallen sharply in recent years because of its restrictions on humanitarian workers and reluctance to allow monitoring of food distribution.
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This year could be the most deadly from famine in three decades.
