101.   Seasonal rains would come just in time for soybean plants, which are setting pods that fill with beans, the key reproductive stage that determines final yields.

102.   Several thousand people died this year when rains came late and the harvest failed in the south, but by most measures this represented a kind of success.

103.   Seasonal rains finally have come to the African nation of Ethiopia.

104.   Should the rains come again, pumps are already on rental in the event bunkers become unplanned water hazards.

105.   Smith dreads when heavy rains come, for he fears Funk Branch, an arm of the clear-flowing Black River, will become fouled with muddy runoff.

106.   Sometimes the rains come too fast for the thirsty earth to drink in.

107.   Still, the rain comes amid already favorable conditions, mitigating its effect on market prices, said Dale Gustafson, analyst at Smith Barney Inc. in Chicago.

108.   That night, when the thunder began and the rains came, Marcellin shifted in his hammock and began slowly pulling on his heavy boots.

109.   The flags suddenly reversed course, as the system of storms and tornadoes approached, and the rains came after Cone had pitched five and two-thirds innings.

110.   The first rains have come and there is no time to waste.