21.   The cost of pumping water during the long drought ate up most of my Social Security check.

22.   The liners can crack after long droughts, the report says.

23.   The long drought and continuing hot weather provided the conditions that enabled this apparent act of arson to explode into an unprecedented conflagration.

24.   Then came a long drought during which Chabon undertook an ambitious novel, which got steadily longer without showing any promise of ever getting done.

25.   There was a long drought that year, and Chicago had thousands of wooden buildings and miles and miles of wood-paved streets and sidewalks.

26.   This has been a long drought.

27.   Unlike last year, when a long drought damaged wheat crops in the Plains, the winter wheat crop entered its dormant stage in excellent condition.

28.   Updates on El Nino are in the paper almost daily, for fear that the long drought that ended last year will return.

29.   Water levels were unusually shallow due to a long drought.

30.   War damage and a long drought have compounded the problem, with rivers too shallow to provide cooling at coal-power stations or much hydropower.