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'One downdraught at this level and we are into the forests!

It was also considered most unlikely that the accident had been solely caused by a sudden downdraught.

They felt the sudden downdraught, saw the mist above them roll into coils that broke against the house walls.

Apart from the downdraught, the air was warm and damp and several of the men on watch were not wearing shirts.

But it was a dam' cold wind: the downdraught from the mainsail seemed to go straight through his smock.

The downdraught of the rotor blew cold on my face and a few pine needles showered to the ground.

The female creates a powerful downdraught of water with her tail near the gravel to excavate a depression.

It was stirred up by the hovercraft's downdraught, freeing pockets of rancid gas.

'Just get an awful downdraught in the chimney sometimes.'

No sails set to cause a cooling downdraught, no awning stretched to make some shade.

He felt the downdraught of the mainsail and glanced up to realize he'd never before really seen the texture of the sail.

Bracing himself against the wall of the ravine, he slid along through the downdraught of air, trying to see where the narrow corridor led.

Tree branches thrashed violently in the downdraught.

A blizzard of ash suddenly burst from the busdriver's face, and was swept away in the downdraught.

The carburettor was a single downdraught Stromberg until 1952 when it was replaced by a Zenith.

The downdraught buffeted my face and clothes as I followed her round, and the smell of aviation exhaust drenched the air.

It was belching smoke, and a downdraught caught some of it and blew it back towards them.

A chopper buzzed overhead, the downdraught plucking his cap and jacket, flapping his trousers.

The engine had been given a new cylinder head, larger downdraught carburettor, larger inlet valves and a higher compression ratio.

A Zenith 34VN downdraught carburetter was fitted.

The movement of this water drop to lower tropospheric levels implies either simultaneous or consecutive processes such as coalescence, formation of vortex and downdraught.

In the orange strobe of our navigation lights I could see the shapes of the people inside them, dodging the downdraught from the rotors and the rain.

Air inside the pipe heats up creating an updraught through the pipe and a corresponding downdraught from the shelter into the pit, reducing the problem with smells.

Plus over 400 ft lbf of torque at 5,250 rpm with Weber 50 IDA downdraught carburettors.

Beatrice helped him furl the awning, and stepped into the lounge as the flickering shadow of the helicopter filled the patio, the downdraught fanning across their shoulders.

Which, of course, has likely set up investors for the most recent downdraft.

"There was just a big downdraft in the stock market," he said.

But if we get a downdraft in the stock market, those stocks will start to come back.

If we hit a downdraft, sheer away from the mountain.

And during the downdraft, were there stocks you just would not sell?

The attacks sent the industry and American into the biggest downdraft in its history.

They are lower in the atmosphere, and have an internal downdraft.

Even at three hundred feet the downdraft blew around some sand.

It is a large, swirling body of water with considerable downdraft.

If it were to go below that, we could have a serious downdraft."

"It's difficult for any earnings report to withstand the downdraft."

The downdraft from the wings was blowing his hair straight back.

Seconds later, the plane dropped as if it had hit a downdraft.

It rose slowly until the downdraft no longer exploded the water away to either side.

She was a strong swimmer, but nothing had really prepared her for the force of the downdraft.

His aroma was printed on every cold downdraft of air.

Russia's markets were swept along in a global economic downdraft today.

"With growth and deregulation, you will get downdrafts like we had in October," he said.

I thought to myself, still fighting against the downdraft.

The downdraft that began in 1980 lasted 21 months and slowly cut stock prices by 27 percent.

Not that there was much to be done against the force of such updrafts and downdrafts.

The downdraft blasted a cloud of sand into the chief's face.

The last thing we need is some downdraft to get her caught in the blades."

This downdraft would reverse itself several times over the final moments of the flight.

Other technology stocks were also caught in the downdraft.