Sentence examples for relatively arid from inspiring English sources

Rain falls on a great number of days even in areas that are relatively arid, such as in the west.

On a late-Quaternary timescale, much of tropical Africa is in a relatively arid phase.

But 2002 has been tough as many companies struggle with relatively arid pipelines of new drugs and fierce competition from generics.

Steel is one of the architect's signature materials, but in this relatively arid landscape, it gives the house a toughness that is unusual even by Kundig's standards.

This reflects the wide-spread occurrence of relatively arid climates towards the equator, and relatively more mesic climates towards the poles.

In particular, the response to the availability of water vapour is just what is to be expected of a planet now relatively arid, but which once probably had much more surface water" (ref. 8, p. 90).

The persistence of these refuges across such contrasting global climatic periods is largely due to the unique mountain environment in High Asia, which maintains a relatively constant arid or semi-arid climate.

The exact timing is uncertain, but one interpretation of the pollen data suggests that a relatively mild arid episode between 6000 and 7000 years ago was followed by a severe 400-year drought starting 4000 years ago.

Thus, despite its fragmented nature, the riparian vegetation on the Vaal still supports an important component of avian diversity, and a landscape-level approach is required to manage this relatively rich, arid-land, river.

In general, the climate under which this vegetation developed appears to have been relatively warm and arid, based on the geology (pervasive red color [oxidation], calcrete in paleosols, and abundant mud cracks evidencing ephemeral flow in streams) and biology (low floristic diversity, xeromorphic plant physiognomies).

Likewise, coarse gravel beds may have limited the degree to which erosion could modify the heavily cratered terrains on Mars, particularly if weathering were largely due to physical, rather than chemical weathering processes in a relatively cold and/or arid environment.