risk of flooding
collocation in Englishmeaningsofriskandflooding
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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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(Definition ofriskandfloodingfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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These responses of the seeds would prevent germination until there was no furtherriskofflooding.
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Its intensity is also likely to be increased, posing greaterriskofflooding.
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Thus, germination cannot occur until well after theriskoffloodingsubsides.
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First, there is theriskofflooding.
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The parapet has to be raised to prevent theriskofflooding.
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Meanwhile, the board of management is reducing theriskoffloodingby heightening the wall.
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Developments on low-lying land adjacent to rivers face an inherentriskofflooding, however small.
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A number of dwellings could be at greaterriskofflooding.
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Government policy is to discourage inappropriate development in areas atriskofflooding.
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Of the approximately 1.8 million properties atriskofflooding, fewer than 4,000 have flooded.
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There is ariskofflooding.
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Building tunnels in these places reduces theriskofflooding.
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In 1992, guidance was issued to local planning authorities to steer development away from areas atriskofflooding.
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Sixty million people will be atriskoffloodingand many will have to flee their homes permanently.
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All the time, and particularly because of theirriskofflooding, they are areas which are thinly populated.
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Theriskoffloodinghas 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 greaterriskofflooding.
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The third strand of government policy is to discourage inappropriate development in areas atriskoffloodingand coastal erosion.
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One can well understand the wish of the council to alleviate that too and reduce theriskofflooding.
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There are numerous places thoughout the country where houses and other property are atriskoffloodingwhenever there is exceptionally heavy rain.
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I am reducing theriskoffloodingby 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 theriskoffloodingmight 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 theriskoffloodingwas 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 increasedriskofflooding.
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The costs of evacuation of people from their homes because of flooding orriskoffloodingis a matter for local authorities.
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