Sentence examples for previous droughts from inspiring English sources

Previous droughts had not exceeded two or three years.

Insurance designers and companies require adequate rainfall data from previous droughts to analyze drought probabilities and calculate index insurance prices.

Because droughts happened once a decade or so, women who had experienced previous droughts were able to pass on survival techniques to younger women.

But by contrast with previous droughts, shortages will endure even if rain and snowfall return to normal next winter, officials say.

The California Department of Water Resources studies previous droughts and uses the lessons learned from recent ones to help with preparedness.

Previous droughts in the Midwest (most recently in 1988) also resulted in higher food prices, but misguided energy policies are magnifying the effects of the current one.

The longest previous drought had been between the World Series in 1964 and 1976.

In the previous drought, in 2011, nearly 260,000 Somalis died of hunger, half of them children, the United Nations reported.

Since the mid-1990's, a severe drought has characterized climate in this region, but the recent drought is similar to previous drought periods since 1950.

Healthy ramets experienced rapid declines of whole-ramet conductance during the severe drought, providing an analog for what likely occurred during the previous drought that induced SAD.

After one year of schooling in a village outside Zinder, Zuero Mutari, 13, had to quit nine years ago during a previous drought to fetch water.