Sentence examples for large spills from inspiring English sources
For sufficiently large spills, the overall Spill Task Force may require activation.
BOEM's own Environmental Impact Statement warned that "there is a 75% chance of one or more large spills" happening.
People tend to think of oil pollution as the biggest threat, and to blame it on large spills.
Because large spills are rare events, oil spill response techniques are often evaluated with laboratory and meso-scale experiments.
"We've had a number of large spills in the New Orleans area, but this is a heavy, nasty product, problematic in the cleanup," said Lt. Cmdr.
The BP Deepwater Horizon explosion in 2010, which released 4.9m barrels of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico, prompted new research efforts but large spills continue.
Another large spill occurred in January of 1980.
The companies presented their response plans in case of a large spill, and they were almost identical.
On Friday, CERN announced that a large spill of helium in the collider tunnel would mean a further delay.
The fact is that even under ideal conditions, relatively little oil is actually recovered from a large spill.
One of the peaks coincides with year 1979, close to the year 1978 in which a large spill was noted.
