Every year, the valley's winemakers await the long, hot, dry days of the southern hemisphere summer that increases the sugar content and intensifies the flavor of the grapes.

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He ran four marathons in four days as "a bit of dry run" in February.

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Only three days of my testing was in dry weather -- only one of Fernando's was wet.

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He said a "lucky window" of four days in May when dry weather had allowed him to fill his barn with silage for the winter, whereas his neighbouring farmer had suffered six weeks of "relentless" rain.

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From the first days of the founding of his firefighting company, in 1959, his men tooled round the dry scrub of the Texas oilfields in red Lincolns, easy to spot when needed.

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After five days of heavy rain, the Met Office has forecast dry weather, although there are concerns that floods will continue as the water drains away.

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Which makes it so hard to believe that Indiana, one of the marquee programs in the sport, has not appeared in the AP top 25 poll since March 10, 2008 a dry spell of 1, 372 days, the longest in school history.

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The Met Office said the weather is set to be mainly dry for most of the UK for the next few days.

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But record-setting Toledo turned out to be a costly dry hole, illustrating the fact that even in these days of space-age 3-D seismic studies, wildcatting is still a risky business.

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