flood-plains

We drove for forty minutes in embarrassing comfort through the flood-plains.

When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010

The new settlers, on the other hand, had been brought up in the irrigation culture of the flood-plains.

When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010

We drove for forty minutes in embarrassing comfort through the flood-plains.

When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010

Reckless and criminal building on flood-plains anyone?

Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I... 2010

We drove for forty minutes in embarrassing comfort through the flood-plains.

When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010

The new settlers, on the other hand, had been brought up in the irrigation culture of the flood-plains.

When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010

The new settlers, on the other hand, had been brought up in the irrigation culture of the flood-plains.

When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010

In the Philippines, government officials suggest that Mr. Sison isn't helping the NPA's efforts, as they accuse him of enjoying a comfortable life in the Netherlands while comrades at home scratch out a subsistence in the country's mountains and flood-plains.

Philippine Rebel Predicts Wider Insurgency 2009

Significant relict tree species locally appear all along the altitudinal gradient of the ecoregion, for example the deciduous common oak Quercus robur in coastal flood-plains, Juniperus thurifera woodlands in rocky canyons of the continental mountain massifs, and birch (Betula pendula) stands in the highest elevations.

Corsican montane broadleaf and mixed forests 2008

In all fairness, the following day dawned bright and cool, and I had to own that after league upon league of arid land, it was pleasing to see the rich flood-plains, cultivated mainly with wheat and barley, though it was off-season, now.

Kushiel's Avatar Carey, Jacqueline, 1964- 2003