11.   But Vail provides such a large and competitive market that a fierce fare war is keeping MAX away until the majors leave this spring with the winter snows.

12.   His home was the forest, where he survived winter snows, fall rains and years of searches by law officers who never saw him until Sunday.

13.   In Tajikistan in central Asia, the wheat crops are stunted and withered, and in war-torn Afghanistan not even the winter snow brought relief.

14.   In this region where I live, there has been little snow this winter.

15.   It did nothing but snow all winter.

16.   It is surrounded by weathered cottages on whose roofs the late winter snow is heaped like layers of meringue.

17.   Late winter snows in Canada forced thousands of caribou to calve along their hazardous migration route, many miles from the security of the coastal plain.

18.   Seaside locations in the Northeast are often spared from the heaviest winter snow by the relative warmth of the ocean air.

19.   Seattle, a city built on steep hills, rarely gets more than a dusting of snow every winter.

20.   She remembers how, well before the winter snow melted, her mother brought out her cherries hat.