Although all of the island receives 40 inches of rainfall a year, except for a very narrow strip along the west coast, precipitation is seasonally and locally variable. Most of it falls between May and September, except in the northeast where 60-100 inches is fairly well distributed throughout the year. Here the prevailing winds are northerly and northeasterly and bring rain to T'ai-pei and I-lan hsien.

Judy's eyes filled with concern as she listened to the news report.

2001: Cocaine is usually taken by insufflating the white powdered cocaine sulphate into the nose, which leads to rapid absorption of the drug into the bloodstream. — Leslie Iversen, Drugs: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford 2001, p. 98)

A flag of P is a sequence (F₀, F₁, ..., Fₘ) of faces of P such that dim Fᵢ = i for each i and Fᵢ is a side of Fᵢ₊₁ for each i < m.[…]A regular polytope in X is a polytope P in X whose group of symmetries in acts transitively on its flags.