Sentence examples for quantity of explosives from inspiring English sources

The official said the bomb was very close to the minister and contained a large quantity of explosives.

"In recent years we have not encountered the quantity of explosives that was in this vehicle," Police Commissioner Shlomo Aharonishki said in a television interview.

Initial accounts by American officials put the quantity of explosives used against the Cole at the equivalent of 400 to 700 pounds of TNT.

Police would not reveal the quantity of explosives found at the farm in Rena, about 100 miles north of the capital, Oslo.

Police today said they had found a small quantity of explosives in the town of Terzigno, close to the scene of the nightly clashes.

Irish republican dissidents appear to have been dealt a blow with the discovery of a large quantity of explosives on Friday in a border area of Northern Ireland.

Meanwhile in Peshawar, the police seized a large quantity of explosive material and arrested a would-be suicide bomber.

Danish authorities gave no indication of the quantity of explosive material found in Copenhagen this month, but they said suspects had begun mixing precursor chemicals for bombs.

Holes are so placed as to require a minimum quantity of explosive per volume of rock broken (called the powder factor).

"Such a quantity of explosive material that was carried in or brought in — that's not so easy to do," Mr. Medvedev said.

In a sign of continuing fears of a possible terrorist attack, the police arrested a man who possessed what appeared to be a small quantity of explosive material and a homemade electronic detonator.