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How to use the word Quantities in a Sentence? Page #2

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You can try and pick winners in the shipping segment of the equity markets, but to get a pure play you need the derivatives market, the new fund will look at all the parts of refining that will be affected by the new regulations. In another sign of the impact of IMO 2020, China said on July 4 that it planned to launch a futures contract for low-sulphur fuel oil by the end of the year. Dutch asset manager Robeco is also focussing on fuel, but it's investing in oil refineries that are well-placed to produce large quantities of low-sulphur diesel.

Kenneth Tveter

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

CFC-11 was used primarily in foam blowing, so we looked at estimates of the amount of CFC-11 that could be locked up in insulating foams in buildings or refrigerators that were made before 2010, but the quantities were far too small to explain the recent rise, the most likely explanation is that new production has taken place, at least prior to the end of 2017, which is the period covered in our work.

Matt Rigby

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

Now that there's actually a market where one can buy large quantities of fentanyl analogues, it eliminates the capability gap and it makes it accessible to terrorist groups, it's a game changer. In my lifetime I've never seen a weapon of mass destruction that is part of an existing black market.

Andy Weber

Found on CNN
5 years ago

What we know about the dangers of this impurity comes primarily from laboratory studies. It is a toxin that can affect the liver and cause liver fibrosis or scarring and liver tumors in rats. So it is assumed to be toxic to humans, as well, in these animal studies, they usually give large quantities, so again, the risk is likely not the same equivalent in humans.

Erin Michos

Found on CNN
5 years ago

In these animal studies, they usually give large quantities, so again, the risk is likely not the same equivalent in humans.

Erin Michos

Found on CNN
5 years ago

He spread money around in industrial quantities, as they say in Mexican Spanish, he was willing to pay million-dollar bribes or even more -- going from the municipality to the state up to the federal government. He was an equal opportunity corrupter.

Bruce Bagley

Found on CNN
5 years ago

This allows trainers who are willing to train large quantities of horses a business opportunity. Several trainers have already stepped up committing to some of these horses, horses can also be sold to sanctuaries, become ranch stock horses, packing horses, or to buyers that may send them to slaughter.

Modoc National Forest

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Since the imposition of sanctions on Iran by the United States and the fall in the toman (rial) against other foreign currencies, a lot of Afghan citizens have been taking large quantities of dollars across the border.

Bahulludin Rahimi

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

When conditions are right for them to make jellies, they produce the jellyfish in vast quantities, people have studied the jellyfish in certain areas quite well and there are instances where it does look like there’s one particular region is having greater numbers of jellyfish. In the literature sometimes people describe it as a global phenomenon and on that we’re just not sure.

Allen Collins

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

Anyone offered large quantities of chocolate via unconventional channels should report it to the police immediately.

Neustadt Police

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

This( molecular hydrogen) is just like the icing on the cake, now, you see the chemical energy source that microbes could use. The only thing we haven't seen is phosphorus and sulfur, and that's probably because they were in small enough quantities that we didn't see them. We have to go back and look and search for signs of life as well.

Hunter Waite

Found on CNN
7 years ago

The only thing you need( in Syria) is a good location, nice tasty food and a lot of quantities, you don't need this social media thing ; marketing comes from the customers themselves.

Imad Alarnab

Found on CNN
7 years ago

Fermenting just means allowing microbes to work on the food to grow in it. ... Microbes make amino acids that we need; they make a variety of fatty acids; they also make a lot of vitamins, so, when you have a fermented soy product, you're getting more of those nutrients in massive quantities than the non-fermented product.

Jenna Stangland

Found on CNN
7 years ago

Our water managers have dealt with such large quantities of rain and runoff entering the lake that it would cover the entire state of Delaware in two feet of water, however, after visiting with local elected officials in Martin County yesterday and viewing the algae first hand, we felt compelled to take action, even though we need to remain vigilant in managing the level of Lake Okeechobee.

Jason Kirk

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Once you say you can’t do one piece of music because of a text – you open a door that will basically shut out large quantities of music and music history, you take out Bach’s work, most of Mozart’s work, you take out everything from the Middle Ages because it’s all sacred.

Lisa Ensinger

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

I go to the Hoboob agency in Hasaka or Qamishli to sell my wheat and I store small quantities for me and my family. Some farmers sell their wheat to middlemen but these traders also sell them ultimately to Hoboob.

Faisal Hejji

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

On one hand, large quantities of foreign selling is available in the market. But on the other hand nobody is coming forward to buy the market.

Dimantha Mathew

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Men who regularly consumed foods high in these flavonoids were 10 percent less likely to suffer erectile dysfunction. In terms of quantities, we’re talking just a few portions a week.

Aedin Cassidy

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

We want to get within five years to an energy gain, and from there we want to go on in ten years to get to first electricity, a device where we can demonstrate production of electricity from fusion, but it may be 15 years before we get energy to the grid in significant quantities.

Tokamak CEO David Kingham

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It (euro zone flash HICP data) is not consistent with the trend that the ECB was expecting, we are expecting a one year extension on QE purchases and quantities to go up to as much as 70 billion euros a month. We also see a cut in the deposit rate, we think 10 basis points, but it could 20.

Ruben Segura-Cayuela

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Many plant-based drugs are not found in large quantities in nature and are difficult to make in the lab, mimicking the way nature makes these molecules is a promising alternative, but to do that we need to find the genes. This can be a major challenge because plant genomes can be very large and genes are hard to find.

Stanford University

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Two reasons. One, they are special. And, two, they are produced in smaller quantities and so often command a premium as time goes by.

Justin Gibbs

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

You know people who are dealing large quantities of drugs also are always using weapons and violence to enforce their territory.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It's much cheaper because of the large quantities, a convoy of barges can shift 7,200 tonnes in one trip. To move 7,200 tonnes by road requires 240 tractor trailers.

Carlos Nunez

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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