According to the Overseas Development Institute Odi, however, just 12% of disaster-relief funding in the past two decades has gone on reducing risks in advance, rather than recovery and rebuilding afterwards.

According to the report's key findings, the proportion who say they ‘hardly ever' read for fun has gone from 8 percent of 13-year-olds.

California's forests: where have all the big trees gone?

Erin had gone beyond what almost anyone would have done, finding my house on a bitterly cold night, and for that I was extremely grateful.

George can't have gone too far.

He came back in the late afternoon to discover that his suitcase was gone.

He was my secret sharer, but one morning, he was gone, given away to someone who had the space and the money to care for him.

Her husband was gone, but life went on.

His voice was almost gone and his heart was heavy.

In general, keep an eye on their property while they are gone.

Kate, whose sister I shared a room with when we were at college, has gone to work in Australia.

Soon the great flocks were gone, never to be seen again.

The purpose of a pony drift is to gather them up so their health can be checked, the baby ones can be stooped from feeding on their mother's milk, and those who've gone beyond their limited area can be returned to their correct area.

The students who he's driven have gone on to become physicians, teachers and engineers, but what they've also got out of their time in school is finding a role model and a friend in Wilson.

Their young daughter had gone to the trash can and found a pile of unfamiliar papers.

Tomorrow, and I need the notes for last Tuesday, when I was gone.

Until we don't stop climate change, many animals and plants in the world will be gone.

When she wanted to put the ring back on later, it was gone.

Large numbers of builders, property firms and retailers have gone bankrupt.

As our special report in this issue (printed before Mr Jobs's death) explains, innovation used to spill over from military and corporate laboratories to the consumer market, but lately this process has gone into reverse.

I wish we'd gone to the beach instead.

He has gone through a similar experience.

The woman should have gone on the field trip

It has gone up 25% in the past decade.

As water tables have fallen and irrigation wells have gone dry, China's wheat crop, the world's largest, has declined by 8% since it peaked at 123 million tons in 1997.

The robots on line 3 have gone wrong, and lines are at a standstill.

The US Army has gone the same way.

Then, within a matter of weeks, it was completely gone!