Even on a dry day, the MTA's 300 pumping rooms remove an estimated 13 million gallons of water from the tunnel network, just to keep the system dry enough to run.
For example, scientists investigate the hyper-dry environments found in Antarctica (but there is still a lot of water, compared with Mars) or Death Valley (dry enough, but much hotter than Mars).
At this time of year, Mr. Jefferson would close his correspondence in words dry enough to be characteristic of him, yet somehow convivial enough to be thinkable in the mouth of Mr. Pickwick.
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He poured me a glass of Le Baccanti, an Apulian Primitivo, which was just dry enough to complement rather than overwhelm the dishes coming at me at the rate of roughly one per every half-eaten plate.
Many Hollywood marriages last barely long enough for the ink to dry on the marriage licenses.
Friday morning's proceedings inside Dublin Castle were intensely detailed and dry in tone, but there was enough interest from the public for a queue to form for seats in the small gallery.
As a parcel of dry air rises, it has to rise farther before it saturates with enough water to form the cloud base.
But there simply isn't enough water - the irrigation canals have not been repaired, the canals remain dry.
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Ashford and Simpson are also credited as co-writers on Amy Winehouse's track, Tears Dry On Their Own, which contains a sample from Ain't No Mountain High Enough.
The movie has the sort of dry, bracingly unwholesome humor that relentless mayhem can produce if the characters are mean and abject enough and the storytelling is speedy and laconic.
In an environment far too dry to sustain much life, the flora and fauna have adapted, enabling them to glean just enough moisture from the ocean fog that spills inland at dawn.
You have to dry the vaccine without killing the cells in it, and you have to make the particles small enough to be inhaled but not so small that they are exhaled.
It's a hard life, but prosperous, at least in the years when there isn't a drought--then the dry savannah turns to desert and there is nothing to do but hold on and try to survive with enough cattle and game to start over.
Following a decade of dry test wells, the bids represent a step forward for the country, even if it only manages to produce enough product to ease their own domestic demand.
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