"a consumption of" is correct and usable in written English.
It is used to describe the act of using or using up something, usually in large quantities or on a regular basis. Example: The country's high levels of air pollution are due to the excessive consumption of fossil fuels.
The U. S. was tenth, with a consumption of 16.3 pounds.
Fine people did not drink so much beer, up to a paltry 8 liters a day, but this was with a consumption of maybe 4 liters of wine".
"On Wikipedia it says: 'The supporters of Rotherham United still maintain the record for the most pies consumed at a football match, with a consumption of pies 40% above the Football League average,'" wrote Mark Ireland back in 2010.
Seven per cent of men said they drank more than 50 units, or 25 pints, a week while 5 per cent of women reported a consumption of more than 35 units a week – equivalent to nearly three bottles of wine.
A typical modern electrolytic tinplate line operates at speeds up to 600 metres (2,000 feet) per minute and has an annual productive capacity of some 300,000 tons, with a consumption of about 1,800 tons of tin.
It begins to matter whether a person is poor relative to his countrymen; whether he can appear in public without shame, as Adam Smith put it.This notion of relative deprivation seems to carry weight in countries once they grow past a consumption of $1.95 per person a day.
This leads to a consumption of more domestic labor and capital.
Moreover, a consumption of 0.034 mJ for transmitting 1 byte during 0.58 ms was observed [19].
Sub-ppm concentrations of NH3 were measured at a consumption of 868 μW.
A consumption of the adsorbed oxyspecies in the course of an electrocatalytic formaldehyde oxidation has been proved experimentally.
These changes are attributed to a consumption of the surface layer of SiC due to Pt2Si formation.
