The phrase "a quantity of wheat" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to an unspecified amount of wheat, often in contexts related to agriculture, trade, or cooking.
Example: "The farmer harvested a quantity of wheat sufficient to meet the market demand this season."
Alternatives: "an amount of wheat" or "a measure of wheat."
Samuel Wells Williams, the great Sinologist, wrote in 1848 that the best soy he tasted in China was "made by boiling beans soft, adding an equal quantity of wheat or barley, and leaving the mass to ferment; a portion of salt and three times as much water are afterwards put in, and the whole compound left for two or three months".
A quantity of 1.0 L of wheat straw pretreatment liquid was added with an initial feed rate of 0.04 L h-1, which was increased linearly to 0.10 L h-1 during 16 h of cultivation.
After achieving a stationary regime, (when the quantity of wheat inedible biomass utilized during vegetation in SLS is equal to the quantity of biomass introduced into SLS before vegetation) grain harvest in comparison with the control was at most 30% less, and in some cases was comparable to the control harvest values.
One example is that of a grain-elevator operator who buys wheat in the country and at the same time sells a futures contract for the same quantity of wheat.
An example would be that of a grain elevator operator who buys wheat in the country and at the same time sells a futures contract for the same quantity of wheat.
If sugar and wheat are desired, you may remove a quantity of cornmeal and add in the same quantity of wheat flour.
A single example of the Viceroy variety fetched 4 fat oxen, 8 fat swine, 12 fat sheep, a bed, a suit of clothes, a silver drinking cup and large quantities of wheat, rye, wine, beer, butter and cheese.
At least one item suggests exploitation even without being a luxury good: Rome imported massive quantities of wheat to feed its large population.
The index funds may never have held a single bushel of wheat, but they were hoarding staggering quantities of wheat futures, billions of promises to buy, not one of them ever to be fulfilled.
Much of this was due to hatred of slavery, though part of it stemmed from a desire to remain on good terms with the US government due to a drought in 1862, Britain was forced to import large quantities of wheat and flour from the United States.
