Sentence examples for quantity of sand from inspiring English sources

On hard courts, the quantity of sand used in the surface paint largely determines the height of the ball's bounce (and, therefore, whether the court plays "slow" or "fast"), while the length and type of grass used at Wimbledon, the most famous tennis tournament, has a similar effect.

The current investigation enables to find the influence of the main factors (water cement ratio, fiber content, fineness and quantity of sand) on the concrete mixture stiffness, compressive and flexural strength of concrete.

This work aims to evaluate the inclusion of waste tyres within Glass Fiber Reinforced Concrete panels as a way to reduce the quantity of sand while giving a second use to a recycled material thus reaching a double ecological benefit.

The size of the pan should depend upon your quantity of sand and salt, since you will need room for water in addition to these ingredients.

Buy a suitable small dish (8cm diameter would be ideal) and specialist rodent bathing sand (often sold for chinchillas and degus), about once a week every week place the dish and a small quantity of sand in the upper are of the gerbilarium so as to allow the gerbils to have a sand bath.

From 30 dph on, these larvae were subsequently graded into three distinct sizes (large, medium and small) every week up to 65 dph, and transferred into cylindrical three-ton capacity tanks with continuous flow-through of optimum quantity of sand-filtered seawater.

It does, however, contain substantial quantities of sand.

It can thus provide a dependable source of clean water without using the vast quantities of sand or chemicals usually required in ultrafiltration.

The Chinese dredger barges can reach up to 30 metres below the surface, cutting out and scooping up huge quantities of sand and coral for land reclamation projects.

The harmattan is a warm, dry, northeasterly or easterly wind that blows out of the southern Sahara and is frequently laden with large quantities of sand and dust.

The wind carries large quantities of sand dust, which turns the sky red and reduces visibility to less than 60 feet (18 metres).