Sentence examples for cubic from inspiring English sources

In January, final approvals were granted to dump three million cubic metres of dredged ocean bottom into the waters of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park to make way for a new coal terminal.

To make room to export an extra 130m tonnes of coal a year from Abbot Point in north Queensland, about 1.7m cubic metres of seabed need to be dredged.

Thanks largely to oil and gas (Qatar's natural gas reserves of some 34 trillion cubic metres are the third largest in the world, and it still has 25bn barrels of oil), the tiny Gulf state of 2.2m people has become arguably the richest country in the world, topping the world rankings of GDP per capita.

To his surprise, after teaming up with Norwegian lawyers, he did get the right to name the island – if not actually secede from Norwegian rule – and in 2010 came a letter giving him permission to "remove up to eight cubic metres of loose material from the shoreline", from which he has fabricated the 44 metre-long Nowhereisland.

The environment department's decision brief said the environment minister supported the proposal without extending trestles, disposing of dredge spoil on-shore and dumping 3m cubic metres of spoil in the waters.

Boyden and his colleagues used the method to perform super-resolution imaging of a 10 million cubic micrometer chunk of tissue from the mouse hippocampus, stained with antibodies against three different neuronal proteins, using a standard confocal fluorescence microscope.

The environment minister said the Coalition had scaled down the previous Labor government's plans for Abbot Point, with a reduced total of 3m cubic metres of seabed set to be dredged.

In February, the authority approved a permit to dump 3m cubic metres of dredged seabed within the marine park while Grayson and Mooney were still under investigation by the probity inquiry.

Yet a recent assessment published in March 2014 in the journal The Cryosphere used new satellite measurements to estimate that the world's major ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica are now shrinking at the rate of about 500 cubic kilometres a year.

For those still working in imperial measurements (that's you America), this is about 120 cubic miles.

For the reef, it is not so much the risk of "death by a thousand cuts" but more "death by millions of cubic metres of sludge and billions of tonnes of carbon dioxide".