Sentence examples for quantity of wood from inspiring English sources
He offered me an unlimited quantity of wood as long as I picked it up.
It looks quite normal in this photo, but what you can't see is either the quantity of wood or the view, which makes this ongoing fit of delusion possible.
The potential quantity of wood savings per year if this oven would be used to cook meals in a rural zone of Mexico is estimated.
The villagers do not prefer to use the wood of Pongamia pinnata and bamboo species as they find that the cooking requires consumption of more quantity of wood.
Recent photos show that salvage logging has been taking place at the El Rosario site, where an alarming quantity of wood has been removed, with all the destructive impacts this process implies.
Predominantly centred on Barrows Wood but also including High Wood and Trundle Wood, this is likely a remnant of the woodland described by Hasted: "... at the northern boundary of the parish there is a considerable quantity of wood, consisting mostly of hazel and oak, with numbers of trees of the latter, interspersed among them, which are but small, never here growing to any size".
In order to meet its immense demand for raw materials, China began to buy unprecedented quantities of wood from abroad; it is now the largest importer of logs and also the largest exporter of finished wood products.
These include burning large quantities of wood in power plants with carbon-capture technology; making and burying large amounts of charcoal to lock carbon into the soils; and grazing cattle in a way designed to turn grasslands into giant carbon sinks.
The Lacey Act amendments were well intended — few people wish to encourage illegal logging overseas — but the act was aimed at bulk freight and industrial inventory, not the practices of luthiers, who hand-select small quantities of wood and season it for decades, often passing it from one generation to the next.
Large quantities of wood products have historically been disposed of in landfills.
Finally, since the reburning fuel is normally 10 20% of the total heat input, large quantities of wood are not necessary.
