Sentence examples for several shipments from inspiring English sources

China is surprisingly cooperative, even quietly intercepting several shipments of supplies useful for W.M.D. programs.

Concerns about American beef among the Japanese public have been fanned by the discovery of several shipments from the United States that contained banned cow parts.

The conspiracy came to light in late 2002, Ms. Mauskopf said, after customs officials intercepted several shipments of cocaine on Universal Airlines flights from Guyana.

The cause of that crash remains under investigation, although the plane was known to have been carrying several shipments of lithium ion battery packs, which are considered hazardous material.

Gasoline stations that used to work around the clock and received several shipments a day get only one tanker in the morning, and close when the gasoline runs out.

Company accounts would be used to disguise the payoffs, and some of the payoffs came in the form of several shipments of free granite, or coveted business arrangements with local branches of a "major retail corporation," reported to be Home Depot.

During 2000 2005, a total of 4,067 shipment fractions of mammals were imported (a shipment fraction is the sum of all animals of a single species in a given shipment; a single shipment may contain several shipment fractions), totaling 246,772 individual mammals and representing 190 genera and 68 families.

Other measures include a freight consolidation service - where several small shipments, all going to the same location, are bundled and shipped together to reduce the number of journeys made by HGVs.

For example, the packages of different consignees could not be bundled into one bag, and the big shipment of one consignee could not be separated into several smaller shipments to avoid tax declarations.

Several scheduled shipments of sugar to Britain have been missed.

In recent weeks, Pakistan has announced the interception of several huge shipments of drugs.