1.   As the sun climbed high in the sky, the train rolled into the arid plains of Andhra Pradesh.

2.   Kano rests on an arid plain a hot breeze away from the Sahara desert.

3.   Shortly after the turn of the century, hardy farmers on the thorny scrublands of the Rio Grande delta discovered that irrigation water could transform the arid plain.

4.   So it was that the Buchanan revolution, which roared out of New Hampshire with such promise, sputtered on the arid plains of Georgia.

5.   That pioneer thought he could create an eastern aristocracy or a southern plantation on the arid plains.

6.   Traffic moving southwards across the arid plain that separates Kabul from the Hindu Kush suggested the exodus was reversing, but many shops remained shuttered.

7.   Axum today is a small town of ramshackle stone buildings surrounded by arid highland plains and hills.

8.   Hundreds of thousands were left stranded by the fire on the arid plains of Mina outside Mecca, the witnesses said.

9.   Hundreds of thousands were left stranded by the fire on the arid plains of Mina outside Mecca, witnesses said.

10.   In Gansu, in northwestern China west of Shaanxi, the loans have provided irrigation on arid plains.