In 2007, the Indian authorities responded to a request from Washington to block a shipment of a large quantity of graphite to Iran, deemed potentially useful to Tehran's missile programme and in December 2008 American diplomats asked Delhi to block the sale to Damascus of components that they feared would contribute to the development of chemical weapons.
Great Britain, which imports a large quantity of tea from China, has a chronic trade imbalance with that country as it struggles to find products that the Chinese will buy.
A shipment of such a large quantity of weapons from Iran by sea would also be a departure from past practices.
A large quantity of Devonian fish from Iowa, and Silurian and Devonian ostracoderms from Scotland and Scandinavia, represent major holdings of early material.
From the beginning of 1761, the South Carolina government took advantage of the need of the Cherokee and sent a large quantity of non‑military goods to Fort Prince George to be exchanged for the many white captives held by the Indians.
The growing tension over the "migrant labour shortage" that has appeared in China's coastal cities, where booming small and private enterprises have absorbed a large quantity of migrants from western China, is illustrative of the importance of family factors in migration decisions.
The Army's dumping of a large quantity of nerve gas in the Atlantic off Florida last August became a major in cident.
50,000 years ago, as the large ice-shields of North America melted in response to the warming climate, a large quantity of freshwater flowing into the Atlantic Ocean slowed down the oceanic currents.
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In addition, terrorists have to get hold of explosives: in Madrid they appear to have bartered hashish in return for explosives used in the mining industry, while in London the March 30 plotters appear to have stolen a large quantity of fertiliser from a farm in Abergavenny.
