A trickle became a flood, and soon they numbered in the hundreds.

The Depression of 1929 dried profits from the Americas to a trickle, and India became ' the one bright spot ' in an otherwise dismal picture.

According to TVS president Eddie Einhorn, the games actually got decent ratings at first, but affiliates started bailing out after the Philadelphia and Jacksonville free-ticket scandals, a trickle that became a flood after two teams moved in the middle of the season and two more folded altogether.

Sources say that the wells became dry and that there was not a trickle of water either in the Tigris or the Euphrates.

The trickle of what was initially called hillbilly boogie, or Okie boogie ( later to be renamed country boogie ), became a flood beginning around late 1945.

American blues became known in Britain from the 1930s onwards through a number of routes, including records brought to Britain, particularly by African-American GIs stationed there in the Second World War and Cold War, merchant seamen visiting ports such as London, Liverpool, Newcastle on Tyne and Belfast, and through a trickle of ( illegal ) imports.

At the same time the great push west along the newly opened Oregon Trail built up from a trickle of settlers in 1841 to a steady stream in 1844 – 1846, and then became a flood as the highly organized Mormon migration exploited the road to the Great Salt Lake discovered by mountain man Jim Bridger in 1847 – 1848.

Once the trickle began, it quickly melted a larger channel through the ice and became a torrent.

The trickle of Czechslovak and Soviet hockey players rapidly became a flood following his footsteps.

Like other collecting and promotional model trends, it started as a trickle and soon became a flood.

First, the public had tired of the flood of movie musicals that began as a slow trickle with The Jazz Singer in late 1927 and rapidly became a torrent after the success of The Broadway Melody in early 1929.

As the Japanese economy worsened in the 1990s, the flood of new OVA titles diminished to a trickle.

With this model, what had been a trickle turned into a flood, as it was used by countless companies as advertising material for their business customers.

In notable contrast to his successor Stigand, Robert does not figure among the important benefactors to English churches, but we know of some transfers to Jumièges of important English church treasures, the first trickle of what was to become a flood of treasure taken to Normandy after the Conquest.

Fortuitously, America's ongoing western migration by wagon trains with the goal of claiming cheap lands in the west was building rapidly from a trickle of settlers from 1841's opening of the Oregon Trail ( now a wagon road ) to a flood of emigrants headed west by 1847 – 49 and thereafter well into the later 1880s.

On 13 August 1961, East Germany began building the Berlin Wall around West Berlin to slow the flood of refugees to a trickle, effectively cutting the city in half and making West Berlin an enclave of the Western world in communist territory.

Due to the variability of Adelaide's climate, flow rates can change from a trickle to flood conditions quickly.

Mainboard designs had improved considerably by this time, and the initial trickle of Athlon mainboard makers had swollen to include every major manufacturer.

A trickle of liquid oxygen is deflected by a magnetic field, illustrating its paramagnetic property

A trickle of liquid oxygen is deflected by a magnetic field, illustrating its paramagnetic property

Other ways to get to Oregon were: using the York Factory Express route across Canada, and down the Columbia River ; ships from Hawaii, San Francisco, or other ports that stopped in Oregon ; emigrants trailing up from California, etc .. All provided a trickle of emigrants, but they were soon overwhelmed in numbers by the emigrants coming over the Oregon Trail.

Tourists also began to trickle into the area, drawn to the Smokies by the writings of authors such as Mary Noailles Murfree and Horace Kephart, who wrote extensively of the region's natural wonders.

Tourists also started to trickle into Sevier County, drawn by the health-restoring qualities of mountain springs.

For example, the Gila River – formerly one of the Colorado's largest tributaries – contributes little more than a trickle in most years due to use of its water by cities and farms in central Arizona.

By 1912 its circulation was 120, 000, and by the late 1920s / early 1930s, The Forward was a leading U. S. metropolitan daily with considerable influence and a nationwide circulation of more than 275, 000 though this had dropped to 170, 000 by 1939 as a result of changes in U. S. immigration policy that restricted the immigration of Jews to a trickle.

A steady trickle of smoke and ash emerges from the caldera, punctuated by louder mini-eruptions on an almost daily basis.

Despite the best plans, Tenzing and Lambert now had to spend a night at 8, 400m with no sleeping bags and no stove, producing a trickle of drinking water by melting snow over a candle.

Animal slurries are usually treated by containment in anaerobic lagoons before disposal by spray or trickle application to grassland.

British Eagle furthermore differentiated itself from its state-owned competitor by introducing assigned seating and " trickle loading ".

Indeed, this event didn't altogether stem the flow of Tinasky's invective: at least one " copycat " letter, by Foster's account, had been published while Hawkins was alive, and these continued to trickle out for a short time after his death.

However, the total depletion of foreign credit by the end of the 1980s caused the manufacturing industry to rapidly implode ; the supply of steel for metalworking at Sungri slowed to a trickle, and even when available, the production lines suffered from regular power outages.

He was not able to trickle down reforms and development effective to states and local government level, even in the states controlled by his party.

The flow of water in the upper river during the summer is generally steady, but in the later months of a dry summer, irrigation will reduce the lower river to a few pools of water connected by a small trickle.

The TurboGrafx-16 and its CD combination system, the Turbo Duo, ceased manufacturing in North America by 1994, though a small amount of software continued to trickle out for the platform.

To the Baltic republics and in the Soviet west ( Ukraine, Belarus, and Moldavia ), there was only a trickle of net immigration of Russians by the 1980s.

Very small " trickle " chargers are intended only to maintain a charge on a parked or stored vehicle, but larger chargers can put enough charge into a battery to allow a start within a few minutes.

Over 11, 000 cars were built, slowing to a trickle of but a few dozen a year towards the end as Tatras began to seem more and more outdated.

The East branch of the Rahway River, which continues between West Orange and Montclair, flows through the entire length of the township and most of the year it is a trickle but flows can be heavy at times.

Although the Sacramento River discharges nearly of water each year, most of the flow occurs during the winter and early spring with snowmelt and rainstorms, and can diminish to a trickle during the late summers and autumns of drought years.

Although a few orders continued to trickle in, the Musical Million leading shape note periodical advertised the book for less than a year, and made no mention of it after 1890.

Sales slowed to a trickle in the wake of the introduction of the Renault Alliance, and all Concord and Spirit models were quietly dropped by the end of the 1983 model year.

The Kabul River is little more than a trickle for most of the year, but swells in summer due to melting snows in the Hindu Kush Range.