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词汇 example_english_risk-of-flooding
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risk of flooding

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meanings of riskand flooding


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risk
noun
uk /rɪsk/ us /rɪsk/
the possibility of something ...
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flooding
noun[U]
uk /ˈflʌd.ɪŋ/ us /ˈflʌd.ɪŋ/
a situation in which an area is covered with water, especially ...
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Examples of risk of flooding


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These responses of the seeds would prevent germination until there was no further riskofflooding.
Its intensity is also likely to be increased, posing greater riskofflooding.
Thus, germination cannot occur until well after the riskofflooding subsides.
First, there is the riskofflooding.
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The parapet has to be raised to prevent the riskofflooding.
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Meanwhile, the board of management is reducing the riskofflooding by heightening the wall.
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Developments on low-lying land adjacent to rivers face an inherent riskofflooding, however small.
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A number of dwellings could be at greater riskofflooding.
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Government policy is to discourage inappropriate development in areas at riskofflooding.
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Of the approximately 1.8 million properties at riskofflooding, fewer than 4,000 have flooded.
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There is a riskofflooding.
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Building tunnels in these places reduces the riskofflooding.
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In 1992, guidance was issued to local planning authorities to steer development away from areas at riskofflooding.
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Sixty million people will be at riskofflooding and many will have to flee their homes permanently.
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All the time, and particularly because of their riskofflooding, they are areas which are thinly populated.
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The riskofflooding has been compounded by farmers opening up river-banks to facilitate flood cultivation.
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Consequently, it is predicted that we will experience an increase in climatic extremes such as greater riskofflooding.
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The third strand of government policy is to discourage inappropriate development in areas at riskofflooding and coastal erosion.
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One can well understand the wish of the council to alleviate that too and reduce the riskofflooding.
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There are numerous places thoughout the country where houses and other property are at riskofflooding whenever there is exceptionally heavy rain.
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I am reducing the riskofflooding by investing in effective flood warning arrangements and flood defences in the highest risk areas.
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That land should be prohibited or reserved because of the riskofflooding might be undesirable, and might lead in many ways to serious complications.
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We might have tolerated that sort of spatchcock muddle at a time when the riskofflooding was lower, but it is no longer acceptable.
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For example, drainage of forestry land upstream can produce increased run-off, increased land erosion and an increased riskofflooding.
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The costs of evacuation of people from their homes because of flooding or riskofflooding is a matter for local authorities.
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