Sentence examples for drain a number from inspiring English sources

But he said that fixing the leak, which has existed for decades, would prove difficult and would drain a number of ponds and streams that have formed above it.

In attempting to address the challenges of brain drain, a number of strategies have been used in an attempt to expand HCW resource allocation and rebalance incentive structures.

In the lead role, Pitt seduced and drained a number of women, bumping off those who might stand in her way, before being dispatched by Peter Cushing.

The thought originated with Tim Heidecker, creator of Adult Swim series "Tim & Eric" and "Decker," with the hopes that it will drain a large number of followers from Trump's account.

The eastern (Gulf of Aqaba and Dead Sea) basin and the western (Gulf of Suez) basin are both drained by a number of small streams.

The rete is drained by a number of small ducts—usually fewer than ten called the vasa efferentia, which are modified kidney tubules.

This deceit became apparent when the lagoon was drained, leaving a number of stingray corpses exposed to the children who had come down to watch their long-tailed friend play in the shallow waters.

It was difficult to pinpoint the cause of the battery drains, with a number of suspected culprits being called out, including a calendar bug, a time zone bug and issues with iOS 5's location services.

The Tigris, rising in Lake Hazar (a small mountain lake southeast of Elazığ) and fed by a number of small tributaries, drains a wide area of eastern Turkey.

The modelled BIIS is extremely dynamic, drained mainly by a number of transient but recurrent ice streams which dynamically switch and fluctuate in extent and intensity on a centennial time-scale.

In addition, mire specialist butterflies responded negatively to environmental variables associated with drained mires (number of tall trees) and positively to pristine mire-associated variables (larval food plant cover, number of low trees).