Wrought iron, teak and wicker look-alikes will last through umpteen cold snaps, deluges and blizzards.

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The development followed deluges that prompted weather and flood warnings over many parts of Britain at the weekend.

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The authors cite as evidence the deluges that hit Mozambique in 2000 and America's Gulf Coast in 2005.

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Others blame deluges of a more metaphorical kind: floods of capital from abroad or floods of lending at home.

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Figuring out a data-ubiquity model means first looking at the feasibility of creating data and consuming data deluges in your operations.

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Deluges, hurricanes and other weather disasters are an annual occurrence: China will always have its floods, Bangladesh its cyclones, the Philippines its typhoons and America its tornadoes.

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At less than 1, 200 cubic metres a second, this flood is smaller than even an average spring flood, let alone one of the mightier deluges of the past.

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The new money being spent on the road by the Welsh government will prioritise drainage works, in a bid to avoid a repeat of the chaos caused by November's deluges.

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