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grain hopper English
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Simple sentences
Sami took that with a grain of salt.
Rye was called the grain of poverty.
The farmer longs for the day when the grain ripens.
Early man used his fingers and toes to count the animals he owned, or the measures of grain he had stored.
You'd better take his words with a grain of salt.
The field mice were eating up the farmers' grain.
Waste not a single grain of rice!
They export grain to many countries.
Rice is a grain that feeds billions of people.
I drove back there with the people, over the meadow into the grain.
Every rumour contains a grain of truth.
If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, then speak to me.
Does Germany export grain?
It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe.
We import grain from the United States.
We import grain from Canada every year.
In other cultures, the balls were filled with earth, grain, bits and pieces of plants, and sometimes even pieces of metal.
There isn't a grain of truth in what he says.
This wood has a beautiful grain.
The barns are full of grain.
Mary prefers whole-grain cereals.
There is not a grain of truth in it.
News and current affairs
The solution is to increase grain yields to at least two tons - and in some places to three or more tons - per hectare.
Compare Argentina with another grain exporter, Australia, which has been hit by some of the same shocks.
Rumsfeld's mistrust of the European approach contains a grain of truth.
Grain prices have more than doubled since 2004, and prices for most other foods have increased significantly.
If you reduce your child's intake of fruits and vegetables by just 0.03 grams a day (that's the equivalent of half a grain of rice) when you opt for more expensive organic produce, the total risk of cancer goes up, not down.
Their true motivation is a question best left to future historians - who, I have no doubt, will take much of the contemporary media coverage with a grain of salt.
The extent of persistent unemployment, despite different labor-market structures and national institutions, suggests that theories that pinpoint one key failure should be taken with a grain of salt.
So it took another couple of months before the grain reached the farmers.
Farmers were left with a pink grain that they were told not to eat, only to plant.
Some began feeding the grain to chickens or sheep and watched to see if there were any bad side effects.
So some then gave the grain to old grandfathers and grandmothers, who also didn't drop dead instantly.
At that point, it seems, most farmers began giving the grain to their livestock and eating it themselves.
As grain was fed to chicken, sheep, and cows, meat, milk, cheese, and butter became contaminated.
When the imported grain was identified as the cause of the poisoning, Iraq's government acted decisively.
The result is a grain yield (for example, maize) that is roughly one-third less than what could be achieved with better farm inputs.
African farmers produce roughly one ton of grain per hectare, compared with more than four tons per hectare in China, where farmers use fertilizers heavily.
Under traditional agricultural conditions, the yields of grain - rice, wheat, maize, sorghum, or millet - are usually around one ton per hectare, for one planting season per year.
The world should set as a practical goal of doubling grain yields in low-income Africa and similar regions (such as Haiti) during the next five years.
But, then again, one should take all economic forecasts about Argentina with a grain of salt.
Of course, there is a grain of truth in neoclassical theory; if there weren't, it probably wouldn't have survived as long as it has (though bad ideas often survive in economics remarkably well).
Grain consumption per head in India has remained static, and is less than one-fifth the figure for the US, where it has been rising.
His proposal goes with the grain of thinking among EU officials (to the point, regrettably, of echoing their mercantilist language).
If producing and consuming countries in grain markets could cooperatively agree to refrain from such government intervention - probably by working through the World Trade Organization - world price volatility might be lower.
Ethanol subsidies, such as those paid to American corn farmers, do not accomplish policymakers' avowed environmental goals, but do divert grain and thus help drive up world food prices.
Like the view that running away from lions provokes them to eat you, there is a grain of truth in the view that banks fail because depositors panic.
That this should happen while developed nations waste hundreds of millions of tons of grain and soybeans by feeding them to animals, and obesity reaches epidemic proportions, undermines our claims to believe in the equal value of all human life.
But it is a small grain, and one on which the average uninsured depositor, like the average tourist in a game park, would be ill-advised to rely.