1.   A drainage ditch around them would probably do more good than anything else.

2.   A drainage ditch, for example, has an impact far beyond itself.

3.   Bear right to cross the drainage ditch by the stone bridge.

4.   Farmers have the extra cost of paying for the upkeep of many drainage ditches to control flooding.

5.   Many drainage ditches are, however, fringed with reeds.

6.   Puzzling over this, I nearly miss a water rail which scuttles off down a drainage ditch towards the loch of Westsandwick.

7.   There were no drainage ditches here, the shoulders too abrupt, the slope too precipitous, to collect water.