Sentence examples for on large quantities from inspiring English sources

Although the tanker was undamaged, the £465 million frigate took on large quantities of water and was in danger of sinking when the captain took her into shallower water before running her aground.

Although she survived the initial attack, Phoenix was listing badly and taking on large quantities of water.

Under these circumstances, and for the reasons stated, the Court finds that the Defendants were not under any duty as a matter of law to warn the Plaintiffs that infants and toddlers can choke on large quantities of marshmallows eaten all at one time.

On Gawker, to "zeta-jones" means to gorge oneself on large quantities of food; to "zellwegger" someone is to con him into buying you an expensive dinner.

It can operate on large quantities of data in order to capture nonlinear and complex relationships between contributing variables.

In the Carolinas, at least two paper mills are considering curtailing production, which relies on large quantities of water, and laying off workers.

Focusing on high-volume orders made sense to them in part because Big D's suppliers offered a price break on large quantity T-shirt orders.

The challenges on large quantity production while maintaining the high optical quality of quantum dots need to be addressed.

We controlled those variables that have been suggested as potentially relevant cues by previous studies on large quantity discrimination of vertebrates, namely the cumulative surface area, density, overall space occupied by the arrays and total brightness of the stimuli (see materials and methods).

They depend on the addition of large quantities of virgin polymer and significant consumption of energy4.

Most of these HBV infection systems furthermore rely on the addition of large quantities of DMSO, PEG11, or immunomodulatory agents8 to detect infection.