Or an industry critic might see a dry-gas report, compare it with another estimate made on a wet basis, and conclude that production is falling short of expectations.

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The treatments depended largely on the belief that we are all compounds of hot, cold, wet and dry bodily humours: this was the basis of medicine from classical times, still used by herbalists and homeopaths.

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In the same way, they hibernate by going into torpor, they can do the same thing on a very short-term basis through the summer - if it is wet and windy and there is no food then they just shut down their body temperature and they just sleep it out.

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