In 1773 Parliament passed a Tea Act designed to aid the financially troubled East India Company by granting it (1) a monopoly on all tea exported to the colonies, (2) an exemption on the export tax, and (3) a "drawback" (refund) on duties owed on certain surplus quantities of tea in its possession.
At the same time, there are a number of legitimate Chinese producers of branded products, that sell surplus quantities illegally.
Both fruit and seed yields were significantly affected in a linear relationship (r2 ≥ 0.91) by either deficit or surplus irrigation quantities under both irrigation methods.
For the large livestock farms, there is a surplus of biogas quantity which predominates the cooking and lighting needs, and this leads to CH4 emission into the environment [52] and causes a waste in renewable energy and an increase in greenhouse gases emission.
The quantity of surplus food clearly outnumbers the number of hungry people.
A spokeswoman for St Mungo's said she was not sure whether it could accept a large quantity of surplus KFC chicken.
In a literal sense, he got his wish: although the progressive-rock boom was effectively over by the end of the seventies, it left behind a vast quantity of surplus LPs, which filled the bins in used-record stores for decades.
From comparisons of the amount of PP-V that was secreted with quantity of surplus intracellular ammonium, it is suggested that P. purpurogenum maintains ammonium homeostasis by excreting waste ammonium as PP-V.
Witness the recently launched business Fareshare 1st, which will divert some of Britain's enormous quantities of surplus food into animal feed.
The fact that the larger distributors find it necessary to carry large quantities of surplus milk, while the smaller distributors do not, leads to price-cutting and other forms of destructive competition.
Amassing vast quantities of "surplus" capital, the giant banks found they could garner superprofits on investments in colonies and semi-colonies, and this intensified the race for empire among the great powers.
