It's hard to grasp how this cliché-strewn dirge, about a couple walking to a ship to escape the great famine, got from page to stage.

Oral lore has it that there was a great famine in the area between 1635 and 1642.

The great famine of the 1590s began the period of famine and decline in the 17th century.

A great famine raged during the first four months of his administration.

Several months after the said fire, a great famine occurred.

It has been unable to use its resources effectively to prevent famine, reduce poverty, and support its rapidly increasing population.

To prevent famine, in 1915, the miller had to grind 82% of the grain.

The emperor lowered taxes and constructed granaries that he used to prevent famine and control the market.

To help prevent famine he introduced the sweet potato, growing a crop in a piece of ground granted by the chief.

Likewise, if a customer spends 100 in a restaurant, a 1 donation could automatically be made to a charity that prevents famine.

He also forgave taxes during this particularly severe famine.

The consequences were economic crisis, with hunger and severe famine due to the blockade.

This was probably reduced by the seven ill years of the 1690s, which caused severe famine and depopulation, particularly in the north.

The result was severe famine and depopulation, particularly in the north.

A severe famine followed in 1242 and 1243.

The aim was to curb the private markets permitted in the wake of the terrible famine of the 1990s and to reassert state collectivism.

During the terrible famine of 1947, despite two decades of heavy investment in agricultural research, two million people died.

The deaths of vast numbers of tree sparrows simply made worse the terrible famine of that epoch.

His earliest memories as recorded by him were of the terrible famine in 1897.

It was a year of terrible famine and all the people nearby went to get pieces of whale meat.

Plant growth slowed, harvests failed and there was widespread famine.

Widespread famine led to rioting and food supplies were looted.

However, there were reports of widespread famine caused by natural calamities.

They believed that widespread famine would be the inevitable result, by 1975.

The government relied on taxed grain to fund its military campaigns and stored surplus grain to mitigate widespread famine during times of poor harvest.

Judged variously as immoral, invulnerable or perilously brittle, the party has somehow emerged all-powerful after 91 years of famine, war, popular revolt, epic leadership folly and scandal.

Coming on top of the previous years of famine, the longer term economic implications were profound.

The price of corn was very high in the years of famine from 1315 to 1321.

Many years of famine pass.