Mr. Qureshi's title, "And How Many Rains Must Fall Before the Stains Are Washed Clean," from a poem by the Urdu poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz (1911-1984), underlines the deeply plaintive mood animating his piece.
You better go in there and tell that short little purple-wearing thing how many Purple Rain albums I bought, OK?" Really, Prince?
It measures how many centimetre the rain falls in that area so you would be able to give plants the desired quantity of water.
I thought, What kind of business survives if its profits rely totally on how many days it rains in a month?" The answer startled him: "Seventy per cent of business is affected by the weather.
Like a Soho back alley, no matter how many times it rains, you can't wash away the smell of piss and blood that hangs heavy in the air.
"You need umbrellas?" "How many boxes of umbrellas?" Since rain is forecast for the entire weekend, Steve ordered 400 umbrellas, plus 288 rain ponchos, which Hanan promised to take over himself in the afternoon.
I don't remember how many people stayed in the rain.
I mean, how many times has it started raining within minutes of my beginning a tennis match?
If we are interested in, for example, whether it's raining outside, how many birds are on the beach, whether fish sleep or stars collapse, we look and see, or turn to others who do.
Mr Baker also said trying to put a figure on the number of migrants coming here is unhelpful because it's "like saying how many days you want it to rain next year, you simply can't control that".
