Sentence examples for quantities of hard from inspiring English sources

Great quantities of hard reading are involved, and endless thought.

Oil and gas drillers inject large quantities of hard, round sand into fracked rock formations in order to hold the cracks open, like shoving a foot in the door.

The small quantities of hard metal in a soft matrix of tin or lead create a material strong enough to bear relatively high speeds and loads yet soft enough to embed dirt or other intrusions and not seize up on a spinning shaft in case of lubrication failure.

Instead what you see is eye-watering quantities of hard work compressed into the period between birth and adolescence.

Jurors were told most of the victims chose to take vast quantities of hard drugs to deaden their senses, particularly when they knew they were being hired out to a large group of men for gang abuse sessions that could go on for days.

The extrusion of MMCs containing significant quantities of hard, second-phase particulates places particular demands on the die, which must obviously maintain its critical mechanical and tribological characteristics, while resisting chemical and abrasive wear during exposure to the flowing aluminium MMC under conditions of high temperature and pressure.

They took with them "a large, large quantity" of hard drives and documents, Mr. Bennett, the Enron lawyer, said.

According to Wicksell, money would be created endogenously, without an increase in quantity of hard currency, as long as the natural exceeded the market interest rate.

It served large quantities of imported hard alcohol, the diplomats noted, "which is against the law".

An astute observer of the trade ties binding the various parts of the British Empire, he wrote in 1763 that extant high duties on molasses (payment of which was widely flouted by New England merchants) would have significantly harmed the economies of Britain, North America, and the West Indies, in part by diverting significant quantities of scarce hard currency to those duties.

In interviews with the housekeepers, the issue of these women often being treated as if they are "invisible" came up again and again, as did the quantity of extremely hard work, sometimes injurious, that is expected of the mostly female, and mostly non-white, workers.