Sentence examples for quantities grain from inspiring English sources

Since the end of the 18th century, the port has handled, in increasing quantities, grain, timber, coffee, tobacco, wool, and cotton.

Applied mineralogy related to mineral processing of industrial minerals is performed by determining the standard ore characteristics such as mineral identities, mineral quantities, grain sizes, textures, and mineral liberations.

We show that 2-D length fractions, 2-D number fractions and 3-D number fractions are all distinct quantities when grain boundary type is correlated with grain boundary size.

Horses required large quantities of grain, and in an agricultural economy where returns on seed grain were as little as 2 to 1, mounted shock action could not have solidified its dominance without improvements in agricultural production.

Limestone is quarried in large quantities, and grain and cotton are other items of trade.

The slaughter of livestock, the mass arrests, and the requisition of vast quantities of grain led, inevitably, to shortages.

Getting enough water to drink is relatively easy, but finding enough to produce the ever-growing quantities of grain the world consumes is another matter.

And with the collapse of the economy, many local producers failed and foreign distillers began to export vast quantities of grain alcohol to Russia and neighboring countries.

If state reserves are withheld, Russian millers and livestock farmers would be compelled to import large quantities of grain for the first time since the late 1990s.

This has diverted vast quantities of grain from human to animal consumption, requiring intensive use of fertilisers, pesticides and herbicides and, according to the Unep report, "caused a web of water and air pollution that is damaging human health".

Local agriculture could not always feed local populations, especially in Italy; vast quantities of grain were imported to Rome (mostly from Egypt, the breadbasket of the Mediterranean), and then distributed in annual doles.