Sentence examples for had been emitting from inspiring English sources

But while the long article included a quotation from Mr. Locke in which he acknowledged that the United States had been emitting greenhouse gases for 150 years, neither Xinhua article included any mention of China's role or of the American criticisms of that role.

The zinc smelters in the Northern Kempen and Liège had been emitting cadmium, as a by-product, into the atmosphere since 1888.

We've been emitting gases into the atmosphere.

For decades, the neighbors say, the garbage in the landfill has been emitting foul odors and causing spontaneous methane fires.

(Full disclosure: I've been asked to be one of the judges, and have been emitting a thin, gleeful squeal ever since).

The contaminated water has been emitting radiation exposures more than four times the amount that the government considers safe for workers.

When the numbers were crunched, the conclusion was stark: there was a chasm between the levels of NOx that the vehicles were actually emitting and what they should have been emitting according to the regulatory tests they had passed.

The data shows that phase two of the Waigaoqiao plant, which has a capacity of 1,800MW, has been emitting nitrogen oxides in excess of emission standards used by the local environmental protection bureau 18% of the time.

The tremor largely spared the nation's nuclear power plants, and there was no sign of any new problems at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi plant, which has been emitting radiation since it was swamped by the tsunami.

Emissions per person, though, are still sharply higher in the wealthy countries, and those countries have been emitting greenhouse gases far longer, so they account for the bulk of the excess gases in the atmosphere.

One of the most peculiar numbers stations is UVB-76, also known as "the buzzer," which since at least the early 1980s has been emitting a steady, pulselike honk, with extremely rare vocal interruptions in Russian.