(1) Sustained rain and ferocious winds caused severe weather conditions across Cumbria overnight on Friday, some of the worst the region has seen for decades.

(2) Thus one of the most endearing qualities of a young child, the urge to be taken seriously, slowly becomes the most ferocious battle for a teenager.

(3) Consultants have also fought a ferocious battle to retain the right to determine who gets the beds when they become vacant.

(4) The enormous scale of this particularly ferocious war is hard to comprehend.

(5) Experts on arguably the nation's most ferocious beast, say the cold February and March mean midges will appear about a month later than normal.

(6) The ferocious weather inflicted severe damage to body panels and windscreens.

(7) One of the most ferocious divides today is that between evangelical and secular America.

(8) She was a ferocious , fierce soldier, one who would go far.

(9) They looked up to see hundreds of small, ferocious looking beasts.

(10) Few national bards have sparked such ferocious controversy - or have been so thoroughly compromised by domestic squabbles.

(11) Far from being the ferocious beast of fishing tales, I have found them shy, and rarely aggressive.

(12) She looked less ferocious and was actually smiling brightly at us.

(13) Imagine walking down the street and you hear a ferocious argument taking place behind a door.

(14) The ferocious war raged on for many hours, costing both factions massive casualties never before recorded in their whole history.

(15) The animal is a most ferocious and savage looking one.

(16) They would get into the most ferocious arguments that somehow would bring them closer together.

(17) It was beautiful, it was terrible, it was ferocious , it was the stuff of desperation.

(18) The sounds of battle last night told us that this was a ferocious assault.

(19) The ferocious battle over sex education has died down in the past few years, as the sense of crisis over teen pregnancy has diminished.

(20) The tackling from both sides was ferocious and uncompromising.