Examples from literature

• Between November and March, about 13,000 cubic meters of water per second fall into the river below. 
• You can hear it long before you see it – 935 cubic meters of water fall every second! 
• At the rate of ten cubic yards a-year, the stream has taken several hundred thousand years to make the glen. 
• It is asserted that millions of cubic miles of some comets tails would not make a cubic inch of matter solid as iron. 
• The explosion produced an excavation measuring fully a cubic yard. 
• The quantity of aqueous vapor that a cubic foot of air can hold in suspension, when it is saturated, varies very much with the temperature. 
• The quantity of mud discharged, one hundred and seventy cubic feet per second.