How To Use Litre In A Sentence

An empty plastic 2 litre bottle is tied to a rock, or bag of stones with strong twine or string.
The rear cargo hatch is unusually generous for this size car and with the back seats folded you can get a flat load floor, with a top load capacity of 1,044 litres.
The pump is capable of producing 1400 litres per hour at 16 rpm from a depth of 40 metres and is effective up to a depth of 100 metres. Archive for » 2005 » September : Sustainablog
The volume breathed out in the first second of forceful blowing into a spirometer, measured in litres.
On the River Darent, in Kent - which as recently as 1996 used to dry up in places during the summer, stranding and killing fish and other aquatic life - the amount taken from the river has been cut by 35m litres a day compared with 20 years ago, increasing river flows and so enabling much greater numbers of brown trout, pike and other fish to live in its waters. Rivers the healthiest in a generation due to stricter pollution controls

The good news for hot hatch lovers is there is a smouldering two-litre twin turbo VXR waiting in the wings that hits showrooms in spring. The Sun
Grindstones can easily be made locally from 20 litres of good quality cement and 50 litres of quartzitic sand with 1 mm or smaller particle size. Chapter 3
Another source of energy that is needed in medium - and large-scale plants is diesel fuel required for operating forklifts which is estimated at one litre per ton of final product. Chapter 10
We're again buying 25-litre carboys of drinking water.
The main fuel tanks, with a capacity of 2,539 litres, are installed under the floor of the cabin and in the lateral sponsons.
Storage capacity for 500,000 litres of de-icer. Times, Sunday Times
Ten millilitres of pure methanol can cause blindness and 30 millilitres death, so it is just small amounts.
Many children had more than 60 micrograms of lead per decilitre of blood, six times the level that the Centres for Disease Control CDC, an American government agency, says should prompt public action. The Economist: Daily news and views
You can deodorise your refrigerator, garbage bin and compost bucket by washing them out with a litre of water, to which has been added one teaspoon of lemon juice.
Legally, every household is entitled to six free kilolitres of water a month - the equivalent of 30 bathfuls.
Dilute to exactly 1 litre; 100 c.c. contain 0.5 gram of antimony as antimonic chloride. A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines.
A wheelbarrow pusher can complete a return journey of 30 m in each direction whilst a shoveller is filling a 50-litre barrow. 1.1. Survey of local conditions and site reconnaissance
The burglars made off with two 20-litre petrol cans and a welding machine.
The engines were just over 5.6 litres in capacity and were 8 cylinders in line.
It's not lacking in power or performance thanks to its 2.3 litre turbo engine. Times, Sunday Times
Scottish & Newcastle's production is already near full-capacity in Britain, producing approximately 16 million hectolitres of beer each year.
Line a 2-litre pudding basin with clingfilm and cover its base and sides with overlapping brioche slices. Times, Sunday Times
The lower section even contains a compartment offering an additional five litres of storage space.
There are five boreholes and water reservoirs with 30,000 litre-capacity.
In fact productivity has increased from 800 to 3,000 hectolitres of beer per employee while the cost of brewing each bottle has dropped by 60 per cent.
The 25-35 litre daysacks are generally used and carried to provide storage for every day items such as sun cream, camera and all the other knick-knacks that come in handy.
They provide chamber capacities from 50-125 litres with large stainless steel chambers in relation to their footprint.
The new plant will package one million hectalitres of premium lager a year, the equivalent of four million pints a week.
Not bad for a five-door family car with up to 1,100 litres of boot space. The Sun
Billed as an affordable model with an unmatchable package of extras, the XEi was released as a 1.8 litre petrol special edition at dealerships across the country in June.
Petrol was 7 cents a litre, the express ways were fabulous with few cars and although the signs said no motorbikes the guys on the toll gates waved us through with a big smile, refused to charge us or accept the cigarettes we offered.
Line a 2-litre pudding basin with clingfilm and cover its base and sides with overlapping brioche slices. Times, Sunday Times
It has a punchy 1.6 litre petrol engine and lots of useful gadgets, including an electric handbrake and automatic lights and wipers, as well as lots of useful storage space.
This factory of a bierkeller is beautifully decorated both inside and out and beer, by British standards at least, is not bad value at just over £2 a half litre. The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
Campaigners say just one litre can make a million litres of fresh water unfit to drink.
If anyone is having trouble coming to terms with the loss of their favourite level of fat content, we can recommend mixing half a litre of unskimmed milk with half a litre of the skimmed variety to obtain the desired fat content.
1 minnow alone could over winter in a 15 litre tank indoors yes… but it would be best to release the shubunkins into the larger built in pond for the winter:) how deep is the underground pond?
Annual capacity would be 200,000 tonnes, equivalent to 1.7 million barrels or 1.97 million hectolitres of beer.
They told a public meeting that 20 million kilolitres of the city's 22 million kilolitre water supply was already allocated.
As an example, it offers cans of beer at 10p, litre boxes of wine at 30p and white rum at 2 a bottle, prices that would delight the most budget-minded Maryhill toper.
This was a single overhead cam 2 litre engine, developing up to 140 BHP and mated to a five speed gearbox.
Miss Creamer told the prison authorities she had injected £80 worth of heroin and drank up to six litres of cider or lager each day.
One sample taken in Glencree village recorded a reading of almost six times the safety limit of 1,000 becquerels per litre.
A ewe suckling two lambs growing at 0.3 kg per day is as productive as a dairy cow yielding 30 litres of milk per day.
Geraldton motorists are now paying an average of 103.4 cents a litre for unleaded fuel - more than 4 cents more than two weeks ago.
Sweet 1.8 and 2litre engines that must be worked hard to get the best out of them and agile handling add up to a proper convertible experience. The Sun
At Basildon police station he was found to have 164 micrograms of alcohol in 100 millilitres.
It's probably feasible to treat and store water from effluent for well under a dollar a kilolitre.
The arrobe of Castile contains sixteen litres; the cantaro of Alicante, twelve; the almude of the Canaries, twenty-five; the cuartin of the Les Miserables
These milkmen supply anywhere between ten and thirty litres a day to households.
Motorists already reeling from the credit crunch are now forking out 1.20 for a litre of unleaded petrol. The Sun
The drink-drive limit stands at 80 mg of alcohol in 100 ml of blood and 35 micrograms of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath.
Rear-wheel drive with that brilliant 2-litre 'boxer' engine, it's a real driver's car. The Sun
The premium was based on the milk quota held by eligible farmers on March 31 at a rate of approximately 1.21 cent a litre or 5.5 cent per gallon.
The result is a diesel Primera that's now as accelerative to 62 mph as its 2.0-litre petrol alternative, but is still just as fuel and tax efficient.
On Tuesday, we used 27.4 megalitres of water - about 400,000 litres, or 7 family swimming pools, under target.
Mike why isn't a megalitre of water at the top of the river the same as a megalitre of water at the bottom of the river?
The 2-litre 158bhp four-cylinder engine and rear-wheel-drive chassis are unchanged. Times, Sunday Times
There were hundreds, if not thousands, of megalitres being traded for one slab of beer.
Most metric recipes were based on a weight unit of 25 grams - slightly less than an ounce - and a liquid measure of half a litre, which was slightly less than a pint.
It lost a bit of power, but the 2-litre diesel is still pushing us up rubble roads and through mountain streams with ease. The Sun
Last week, consumption increased slightly to a daily average of 25.70ML - up almost a megalitre a day on the previous week
With regard drinks, I increased my water intake to about 2 or 3 litres a day and juices replaced fizzy drinks.
The petrol price goes up by six cents a litre today, and while there's little to be done about price increases, the good news is that you can cut down on consumption, thereby nullifying the increase, without too much effort.
My mistake was in not making clear that there is no direct conversion formula, that one has, as you quite rightly say, to convert Kms to Miles and to convert Litres to Gallons and then it's a snack.
The 2WD Tacoma received a Natural Resources Canada ecoEnergy award as most fuel-efficient pickup but the 4WD is a fair bit thirstier, with ratings of 11.5 litres/100 km city and 9.2 highway. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
Annual consumption of wine has risen from five to eleven litres per head.
I am so thirsty I guzzle several glasses of fruit juice, a litre of water and most of a flask of red bush tea before I even sit down.
The price of bulk water will increase by about 16 cents (to around R3. 15 per kilolitre) from July 1, Rand Water said on ANC Daily News Briefing
Powered by an AMG 6. 3-litre V8 front-mid-engine developing 571 hp combined with a seven-speed double-declutch transmission in a transaxle configuration and sports suspension and with aluminum double wishbones, the SLS guarantees sensational driving dynamics. Top Speed
The two breweries will boost the annual production capacity of China Resources Breweries in Anhui by about 80 per cent to 630,000 kilolitres.
The 251-litre boot is the same size as the three-door Up and larger than it seems, with a hidden compartment underneath the stowable floor. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph
It has twin exhausts, big wheels, a spoiler, frog-style foglights and a turbocharged 2 litre engine that kicks out 225 bhp.
Routinely, over 50 l of phloem sap was collected, however, only a few microlitres were required for analysis.
The City provides free each month six kilolitres of water to all households and 50 kilowatts of electricity to those supplied by City Power.
It doesn't take long to mix it and put it into the standard 23 litre plastic carboys.
The litter bin has a stainless-steel cylindrical body with a polythene liner providing a capacity of up to 70 litres.
Bulgaria now exports 770 000 hectolitres of bottled wine annually, mostly to Germany, the UK and Russia.
Your 'kit' would come to 67.67 (for a 1-litre bottle of each product) including bulk-buy discounts and delivery. Times, Sunday Times
We also had un pot lyonnais, a 46 centilitre bottle of local red wine.
The result is a 2.2-litre engine with 16 valves, twin overhead camshafts and a pair of vibration-reducing balancer shafts.
The Calgary restaurant wine scene has come a long way since a barrage of steak houses pushed gallons of cheap plonk down our throats via the infamous half-litre carafe.
A 2.2-litre in-line four is the base engine, offering 145 horsepower and 155 foot-pounds of torque.
That could save half a litre of petrol. The Sun
I get 54mpg from my 1.5-litre diesel, which is bangin'. The Sun
They estimate an average annual consumption of 15 litres of whisky per head of the adult population.
Litre is a unit of capacity in the metric system.
Latest figures from the AA show the average price for a litre of unleaded petrol across the UK is 82.77p, although supermarkets are about 1p a litre cheaper.
It has been estimated that they would have contained about 2,500 hectolitres of wine; details of their capacities were inscribed below their necks.
Haemoglobin is measured in terms of the weight present in grams per 100 millilitres (1 decilitre or dl) of blood.
Six-hundred microlitres of initial labeling solution was then added to achieve an appropriate dilution.
The volume of wine produced may well have trebled to 900,000 hectolitres at the same time.
Mind you, we are staunchly imperial on volume: pints of beer, gallons of petrol, and who the heck knows what a hectolitre is?
I drove the impressive 2-litre diesel but the 1.6 litre diesel and petrol make the most sense. The Sun
Irish people, North and South, guzzled their way through £600m worth of soft drinks last year, quaffing 729m litres of their favourite non-alcoholic tipples in the process.
They said a survey in an informal settlement in the Durban metropolitan area had shown that half of the children there had a blood lead concentration of above ten micrograms per decilitre of blood. ANC Daily News Briefing
It was 7pm and the night was still young, yet the three people sitting next to me were so keen to get their evening started that they were already each drinking from their own litre bottle of neat vodka.
The biggest bonus is boot space litres. The Sun
The American-designed tanker has the capacity to hold up to 20,000 litres of fuel, and can operate in both arctic and desert conditions.
Your average 60-litre roll-tastic two-wheeler is sold as the friend of frequent flyers and lord of the travelator. Times, Sunday Times
Spoon the batter into a prepared 1.5 litre ovenproof dish and bake at 180C for about 1 hour.
Meanwhile the soon-to-arrive (in Ireland, at least), more powerful two-litre turbo is a tad heavier and more thirsty and, though it's quicker in 0-100 terms, the peakier power delivery may pall. Motoring
A British gallon is 5 litres, but a US one is less.
The truckers are angry at the rise in diesel prices, which currently average 81.3p a litre.
Cows are fed a total mixed ration and those yielding over 25 litres are fed concentrates in the parlour.
The boot space is just 430 litres, but the low floor makes loading bulky items simple. Times, Sunday Times
In the York and Selby area the average price for a litre of unleaded and diesel currently stands at 85p.
The 1.2-litre sounded confident when I tested it and was quite nippy around the small lanes.
A recent report into health of the Thomson and Macalister rivers recommended that flows be increased by 26,000 megalitres, raising the anxiety levels among farmers to record heights.
For the first 150 in Perth you pay 41.6 cents a kilolitre, and for the ones that you use up to 260 you'd pay 67.4 cents for those ones.
About two hundred litres of beer are brewed in one go.
Fill the tank again, note the amount of litres taken and divide the number of miles driven by the amount of fuel used.
"The truck is equipped with tankage to enable the transportation of 500 litres of diesel fuel, 500 litres each of bulk engine oil and hydraulic oil and collection of 200 litres of used oil from equipment operating at mining working ends," he said.
Pump prices have already soared to 81p per litre - £3.68p a gallon - on many forecourts.
It covers 17,250 hectares and has a storage capacity of 686,000 megalitres.
Pick of the bunch is the 1.4-litre turbocharged petrol unit. Times, Sunday Times
Haemoglobin is measured in terms of the weight present in grams per 100 millilitres (1 decilitre or dl) of blood.
Most metric recipes were based on a weight unit of 25 grams - slightly less than an ounce - and a liquid measure of half a litre, which was slightly less than a pint.
Bulgaria now exports 770 000 hectolitres of bottled wine annually, mostly to Germany, the UK and Russia.
Blend together thoroughly 50 millilitres jojoba oil, 40 millilitres almond oil, 10 millilitres wheat germ oil and 10 drops of lavender oil, adding the lavender oil last.
Fifteen microlitres microcarrier suspension was used for each bombardment.
The day has come now when a litre of petrol or diesel costs as must as a gallon did a few years ago.
With so many people it was possible and convenient to have small samples, although at least a decilitre is preferred. Yule beer!
One elderly man picks up his 16 litres and pedals home on his bike. Times, Sunday Times
One final thing that took the gloss off the evening was the fact that we were charged $10 per bottle of 1 litre Antipodes mineral water - an outrageous cost that was not brought to the attention of the table when we asked for water.
A bog-standard, stamped-steel monocoque bodyshell has industry-standard MacPherson-strut front and torsion-beam rear suspension with a 1.0-litre, three-cylinder petrol engine mounted across the engine bay in 59bhp or 74bhp form, with a choice of a manual or robotised manual, five-speed transmission. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
One word of advice to drivers hoping to fill the boot with bubbly - the duty-free limit for importing champagne into the UK is a measly 90 litres.
The AA calculates that a modest family car doing 12,000 miles a year and getting 30 miles per gallon will use 1800 litres of fuel.
Prima facie it seems that due to poor quality of construction work, the tank failed to hold 200 litre water and collapsed," he said, adding the tank was constructed by the 'mela' committee. Analysis
The car owner brings out a hosepipe turns on the tap and hundreds of litres of clean water is wasted.
She kept young largemouth bass in ten-litre aquariums filled with buckyball-contaminated water.
A project in the Himalayas diverts 6 million litres of sewage per day that would otherwise be dumped into the Ganges and uses it to raise fodder crops.
The dairy will be able to process and package up to 1.3 billion litres of fresh milk a year. Times, Sunday Times
Progress was slow - is there really a 2-litre engine under the bonnet?
His chest radiograph showed a large globular heart, and an echocardiogram confirmed a pericardial effusion from which two litres of fluid were drained.
No liquor shall be sold or supplied for consumption away from the premises in containers larger than two litres.
Newgate Market, off Parliament Street is controversially claimed to be a popular hang-out for underage smokers, while a city car park is tipped as a spot where a passing student may be persuaded to buy youngsters a litre of cheap cider.
Imported milk is dumped in Ecuador for half of what it costs to produce it, but transnationals sell it back to us at US $1.80 per litre.
You look at the average lot size, some 500 to 600 square metres, it starts to get very challenging fitting a rainwater tank in, particularly when we're looking at rainwater tanks that will be somewhere between 7 to 10 kilolitres in size.
Thirty microlitres of PCR product was loaded on 1.5 per cent agarose gel (Sigma, USA) electrophoresed and stained with ethidium bromide.
The company plans to increase production to 1.2mn decalitres of beer a month and to sell 10 mn decalitres a year.
Materials have included 28,000-ft of scaffolding weighing 72 tonnes, 300 kg of plaster and 880 litres of pink and cream paint.
Remove from heat and add six litres of water and half a cup of strained lemon juice and stir well.
In 1994 it sold 5m litres of organic milk. Times, Sunday Times
The latest addition of equipment will include 500 metres of containment boom, 200 metres of sorbent boom, 1,000 sorbent pads and 3,000 litres of oil dispersant.
The fuel crisis in the Middle East has manifested itself here as the price of a litre of unleaded petrol in Carlow has jumped in price by an average of 7% in the last month.
To cook the soba, bring 2 litres of water to the boil. Times, Sunday Times
Most metric recipes were based on a weight unit of 25 grams - slightly less than an ounce - and a liquid measure of half a litre, which was slightly less than a pint.
Hold cans of beans or half-litre bottles of water while you shadowbox. The Sun
By 8.40 am, water was spurting out of the hole at a rate of 200 litres a second.
Each two-litre cola bottle contains about 49 teaspoons of added sugar. Times, Sunday Times
It supplies 40,000 litres of milk a day to Tesco. Times, Sunday Times
It's not lacking in power or performance thanks to its 2.3 litre turbo engine. Times, Sunday Times
The drink-drive limit stands at 80 mg of alcohol in 100 ml of blood and 35 micrograms of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath.
A long soak in the bath is a great relaxant, but did you know that having just one can use up to 100 litres of water?
This year nearly 20billion litres will be needed to refill it for the summer. The Sun
But the latest flush toilets use only six litres per flush.
All you might need is one three-litre box of white and one of red, equivalent to eight 75 - centilitre bottles.
Why a butt of wine should be a cask of wine of 570 litres whereas a butt of beer is a keg of eighty litres less is questionable.
In 2004 the average Israeli had a daily allowance of 290 litres of domestic water, the average Palestinian 70.
Available in 12 or 24V versions for small and larger commercial vehicle applications, it holds 4.5 litres of water.
The winery can process 15,000 tons of grapes per year, producing 1 million decalitres of wine.
The North Pacific contains about 1 nanogram of PCBs per litre.
The quantity of glucose in the blood seldom exceeds 160 milligrams / decilitre (mg/dl) of blood shortly after food sugar has been absorbed, nor seldom falls below 60 mg/dl during fasting.
Same looks, same comfort and infotainment, same driver aids, same off-road ability - but with ginormous 1,856-litre boot. The Sun
The increased dimensions mean that interior space is maximised with 56 mm extra legroom in the rear and a boot capacity of 267 litres.
You look at the average lot size, some 500 to 600 square metres, it starts to get very challenging fitting a rainwater tank in, particularly when we're looking at rainwater tanks that will be somewhere between 7 to 10 kilolitres in size.
She had 416mg of alcohol per decilitre of blood in her system - the legal driving limit is 80mg. The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
It lost a bit of power, but the 2-litre diesel is still pushing us up rubble roads and through mountain streams with ease. The Sun
A 1.6-litre petrol engine and a more powerful 2-litre diesel will follow next year. Times, Sunday Times
There were hundreds, if not thousands, of megalitres being traded for one slab of beer.
Under the bonnet is a weedy 1.6-litre engine. The Sun
Each washing machine cycle, for example, takes a staggering 90 litres, while flushing the toilet uses another nine.
Four litres of milk produce only 1 litre of yoghurt, but the naturally thick product sells for a premium. Times, Sunday Times
It costs ￡10.86 for one litre including carriage.
Stock up at the supermarket or minimart where a 1.5-litre bottle of water will cost less than 50p. The Sun
Up to 348 million litres of fizzy drinks were sold in the year to May, an 11% rise on the previous year.
Use a one millilitre syringe and as fine a needle you can get - I use a 25 gauge but these may not be easily available.
Drink at least 2 litres of still mineral water throughout the day to aid detoxification.
Hundreds of thousands of gallons of water from the RDS on-site well, which can deliver up to 15,000 litres an hour, are being used to irrigate the grounds for the horses and ponies.
Instead of using fabric softener and to deter clothes moths, rinse your clothes with a solution made from 2 litres of white vinegar and 50 ml of eucalyptus oil, shaken.
Each load of a filled dishwasher uses 35–45 litres, which is the same amount you use every time you handwash a load of dishes.
At the heart of the CR-V beats Honda's lively new 2.0-litre i-VTEC engine with power output upped in 2002 to 150 bhp.
Mix the peaches and berries with the caster sugar in a buttered one-litre pie dish.
Vitamin A in whole milk varies from 69 micrograms per 100 millilitres in the summer to 44 micrograms in the winter.
The standard household lavatory, we are told, uses 7.5 litres of water per flush.
Drinking at least two litres of water a day will rehydrate your skin.
It could even cause masonry efflorescence, which is commonly called salitre. Windows and Doors in Mexican Homes and Offices
They are made from recycled plastic and hold up to 3 litres. Times, Sunday Times
The tank takes 50 litres.
Its origins are based on a local territorial dispute but that is beside the point: thousands of litres of red wine are sprayed, poured and thrown. Times, Sunday Times
Roman pound was equivalent to 12 ounces, and the _sextarius_ which was the sixth part of a conge, came near to the old Paris chopin, or half a litre. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 281, November 3, 1827
People drive in kilometers, fill their gas tanks by litres and heat their homes in degrees centigrade.
But when we greatly increase our future capacity for the city by raising the dam wall another 13.5 metres, this will take capacity up to 296,000 megalitres.
Then again, it turns out that, as a nation, Sweden could drink any steak-eating New Yorker pantywaist under the table. 46 litres of spirits a year?
The 1.6-litre petrol model I drove is likely to be one of the bestsellers in the range. Times, Sunday Times
Despite all of my talking in this post about diet drinks, I am working pretty hard at drinking two to three litres of water a day.
The major supermarkets have been congratulating themselves in delivering a Christmas bonus for millions of motorists by cutting fuel to below 80p a litre.
Howden said he drank five litres of cider, lager and beer and thought someone had spiked his drink with Ecstasy.
People will happily fork out nearly a quid for half a litre of clear liquid in a throwaway plastic container when a tap provides a perfectly acceptable alternative.

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