1.   For that, they can thank modest human efforts to save their habitat, plus months of pouring rain.

2.   We drove all the way through pouring rain.

3.   One minute it was sunny, the next it was pouring rain.

4.   In pouring rain, police monitered the movements of vehicles leaving the site, although some travellers said they may stay until tomorrow.

5.   On budget day and in pouring rain, nobody had the blues, not even the bookies, as the favourites fell.

6.   And tens of thousands paid silent tribute to Mitterrand at the Place de la Bastille Wednesday night, despite pouring rain.

7.   At night, in pouring rain, he uses them to cut a hole in a window and break into the school.

8.   Actually, the lines have been long all week, including on Thursday night, under pouring rain.

9.   But because it was pouring rain, and I had never been to one of them, I decided to go see what it was all about.

10.   But after a test drive on an autocross in pouring rain, I quickly determined that I loved it.