11.   In addition to causing severe damage, the floods were responsible for the deaths of at least five people.

12.   Floods is a fairly highly specialised now, particularly flood plain management.

13.   Although it will be weeks until the commercial losses are tallied, officials said the flood is likely to be the worst in state history for businesses.

14.   Because digital reproduction offers virtually pristine quality, there could be a flood of bogus copies.

15.   A flood of supplies is likely.

16.   A probable maximum flood would be of epic proportions, greater than any ever recorded in Texas.

17.   But before this election year is over, there could be a flood.

18.   But so far there has been no flood of refugees, analysts say, even though Napster recently began filtering its directory to eliminate thousands of copyrighted songs.

19.   But the floods are the most immediate concern.

20.   But the recent floods are evidence that Mitch is still having an impact.