Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [num] mg/litre [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite the reassuring noises of the Royal Commission in 1979 , by 1984 the UK 's Standing Technical Advisory Committee on Water Quality ( STACWQ ) reported that , if present trends of fertiliser use were to continue , mean nitrogen levels in surface waters would increase by 2–3 mg/litre ( as nitrogen ) by 1994–2004 and this would cause widespread breaches of the 11.3 mg/litre nitrogen level ( 50 mg/litre nitrate ) . |
| 2 | Acheson added : ‘ I would accept [ using ] the average concentration [ rather than a maximum ] in relation to methaemoglobinaemia , ’ which goes less than half way to the justification that the DoE was seeking for a relaxation of the 50 mg/litre standard . |
| 3 | The UK government has since tried to use Acheson 's opinion to argue for an upwards revision of the 50 mg/litre limit . |
| 4 | This showed that 1 million East Anglian and Midlands consumers regularly drank water above the 50 mg/litre standard , and another 3.8 million drank water almost as polluted during 1984/5 . |
| 5 | While other European countries ( not to mention the United States ) were struggling to comply with a 50 mg/litre nitrate limit , the minister revealed that Britain had once again discovered unique drawbacks to the proposed solution to pollution , which made the cure , as it were , worse than the disease . |
| 6 | Dutch manure and fertiliser rates are due to be reduced until a 50 mg/litre soil water concentration is achieved at 2m depth , later to be cut to 25 mg/litre . |
| 7 | ‘ However , ’ says David Baldock of the Institute for European Environment Policy , which has advised several governments on the issue , ‘ in twenty years ’ time five million people could be drinking water well over the 50 mg/litre limit . |