He removed the crude device and took it to a nearby field to detonate.

Figures for carbon emissions were massaged down by the crude device of excluding incoming international flights from the calculations.

I cannot imagine a narrative tool more blunt than a character who reads aloud from a newspaper, to take one particularly crude device.

The windscreen wiper remains a fairly crude device, but that may change.

The plot was said to involve the use of a relatively crude device for releasing the chemical gases.

I wrote down, and added a crude drawing of the two of us with a heart floating over our heads.

In ancient times, legends were passed on through crude drawings on walls.

Many sightings contained crude drawings.

His crude drawings of it also appeared in his sketchs shows and films.

A great walker, he loved roaming in the woods, often returning with natural curiosities, including birds' eggs and nests, of which he made crude drawings.

The gasworks in the 19th century produced a crude form of natural gas for gaslight street lamps using coal gasification methods.

To form the past adverbial participle of a verb that ends in any vowel but, add the suffix to the crude form of the verb.

This means that 5% of the proteins produced are larger than and different from the others normally produced, which can be thought of as a crude form of transcriptional regulation.

This depends upon very crude forms of artificial intelligence that perform reconfiguration by obeying specific rules.

The penny papers represented the crudest form of journalism because of the sensational gossip that was reported.

Despite lots of crude humour, there's plenty of heart here too.

Crude humour will always make me laugh.

This was entertaining viewing with a few sparks of crude humour.

It balances crude humour with whimsy, and outrageous transgression with personal tragedy.

It was light in tone but often veered into black comedy and crude humour as satire.

Contact rates are a fairly crude measure of this.

Could it be that the statistics show (again) what a crude measure exam results are?

Productivity fell every year - a crude measure, but a telling direction.

Measuring transferrin provides a crude measure of iron stores in the body.

The maps thus provide a crude measure of the relative abundance of right whales by geographic sector and month, controlled for the very non-random searching effort of the whalers.

We used a crude method.

Building a new station here necessitated the removal of the first crude method of refueling locomotives, and a turntable, to a new location.

They rely on the same crude methods of mass marketing to consumers on social networks as they use in the real world.

At the time, oil was gathered by such crude methods as soaking blankets in surface oil and then draining the blankets over barrels.

This was a real possibility owing to the crude methods of execution at the time.

Then, the crude price cratered from $147 to $33 in six months.

Movements in the crude price feed through into petrol and diesel prices within weeks.

The rest of the market headed lower, despite the support offered by oil majors as the crude price broke through $72 a barrel.

From that point, the crude price continued to fall for another 14 months, slumping by a further 32 per cent.

Discussions are ongoing and maybe with the lower crude price the chances of a resolution have increased.

It predicted that growth in crude production would slow to 8.1 per cent this year and to 1.5 per cent next year.

The exporters' cartel was founded in 1960 and today pumps about 40 per cent of the world's daily crude production.

Crude production rose to 9.31 million barrels per day last week from 9.29 million a week earlier.

This produces 820,000 barrels of crude per day, worth almost $60 million per day at present prices and representing 1 per cent of global crude production.

Total crude production was 315,000 m (2.7 million barrels) of which 7,313 m (63,000 barrels) were spilled.