Example sentences of "of water [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The brewery employed 65 coopers , used 130 horses to move the beer out to publicans , and consumed 500,000 barrels of water a year from its own artesian wells . |
| 2 | Following the talks a joint communiqué reiterated both governments ' adherence to the protocol signed in Damascus in August 1987 , and in addition Turkey committed itself to releasing more than the current 500 cubic metres of water a second to Syria . |
| 3 | It involved the building of a 1,100-km pipeline from underground reservoirs in the Fezzan desert , in the south west of Libya , to supply 1,000,000 cubic metres of water a day to the Tripoli area . |
| 4 | The temporary diversion of the Union Canal had to guarantee passage of 4½ million gallons of water a day with a similar standby capacity , whilst the Edinburgh/Carstairs railway was temporarily diverted over a length of almost 800 metres . |
| 5 | Each of its 3.5m people pulls 200 gallons ( 750 litres ) of water a day from the Everglades or its aquifer . |
| 6 | There is now a glimmer of hope … this is the first reasonable amount of water a pond in Blewberry has had for at least two years . |
| 7 | Fire chiefs say they were pumping out thousands of gallons of water every minute in an attempt to keep levels down . |
| 8 | If such a tube is placed vertically into a tank of water the level of the water in the tube will rise above that in the tank . |
| 9 | Mercenaria pumps up to 11 litres of water an hour through its tissues , becoming the penultimate depository for toxic chemicals and metals until served up as chowder or clams casino . |