the quantity return vs the quantity returns

Some examples from the web:

• If a Member State does not use the quantities drawn it shall return them as soon as possible to the corresponding quota amount.
• (b) of the quantities, including nil returns, covered by import licences they have issued;
• There are also industries today that, after using a certain quantity of water, return it to its source in the same or even in a better state than before they used it.
• On the one hand there was the idea of using quotas to return quantities to reasonable proportions and giving countries in the developing world, including the least developed countries, more involvement.
• The oil-for-food programme under which Iraq is allowed to export limited quantities of oil in return for humanitarian goods was first offered to Iraq in the summer of 1991 as United Nations Security Council Resolution 706 indicates.
• The Member States shall notify the Commission of the total quantities, including nil returns, covered by B licence applications by Wednesday of each week in respect of applications received the previous week.
• of the total quantities, including nil returns, covered by licence applications within a specific period fixed by the Commission Regulations governing the relevant import tariff quota following the closing date for the submission of applications;
• The quantity of cargo and mail that must be carried per return journey on the Lisbon-Pico-Lisbon route every week shall be 2 tonnes.
• For the sound management of the quantity in question, a mechanism must be created that encourages the operators to return immediately to the issuing agency licences that they will not use.
• Importers shall return the expired import authorisations to the issuing national authorities within 10 working days after the date of their expiry. Importers shall not apply for a new import authorisation as long as 85 % of the quantity of the valid import authorisation has not been imported.
• From 1 June of each year, the master of a fishing vessel shall transmit the catch report on the quantity of bluefin tuna, including zero catch returns, on a five-day basis.
• The commitments these undertakings must make in return for approval must be laid down, in particular the obligation to keep an up-to-date record of the quantities of raw materials entering, being processed in and leaving the undertaking in the form of processed products.
• The quantities of potassium nitrate involved at these stages are significant.
• - the quantities exported to third countries.
• The quantity of exports to this country appears reasonable.
• Where aggregate applications exceed the quantity of the quota concerned, they shall be met on a pro rata basis, in proportion to the quantities applied for.
• The quantities applied for exceed the quantities available.
• All notifications, including 'Nil' returns, shall be made as indicated in Annex II(B), and shall contain the quantities imported:
• no later than 10 August, of the quantities of products, including nil returns, for which import licences were issued in the previous month, regarding the quantities referred to in Article 1(3)(b) of this Regulation;
• No aid shall be granted if the discrepancy between the quantities accepted for processing and the quantities contracted for is 50 % or more of the quantities contracted for.

Some examples from the web:

• If a Member State does not use the quantities drawn it shall return them as soon as possible to the corresponding quota amount.
• (b) of the quantities, including nil returns, covered by import licences they have issued;
• There are also industries today that, after using a certain quantity of water, return it to its source in the same or even in a better state than before they used it.
• On the one hand there was the idea of using quotas to return quantities to reasonable proportions and giving countries in the developing world, including the least developed countries, more involvement.
• The oil-for-food programme under which Iraq is allowed to export limited quantities of oil in return for humanitarian goods was first offered to Iraq in the summer of 1991 as United Nations Security Council Resolution 706 indicates.
• The Member States shall notify the Commission of the total quantities, including nil returns, covered by B licence applications by Wednesday of each week in respect of applications received the previous week.
• of the total quantities, including nil returns, covered by licence applications within a specific period fixed by the Commission Regulations governing the relevant import tariff quota following the closing date for the submission of applications;
• The quantity of cargo and mail that must be carried per return journey on the Lisbon-Pico-Lisbon route every week shall be 2 tonnes.
• For the sound management of the quantity in question, a mechanism must be created that encourages the operators to return immediately to the issuing agency licences that they will not use.
• Importers shall return the expired import authorisations to the issuing national authorities within 10 working days after the date of their expiry. Importers shall not apply for a new import authorisation as long as 85 % of the quantity of the valid import authorisation has not been imported.
• From 1 June of each year, the master of a fishing vessel shall transmit the catch report on the quantity of bluefin tuna, including zero catch returns, on a five-day basis.
• The commitments these undertakings must make in return for approval must be laid down, in particular the obligation to keep an up-to-date record of the quantities of raw materials entering, being processed in and leaving the undertaking in the form of processed products.
• The quantities of potassium nitrate involved at these stages are significant.
• - the quantities exported to third countries.
• The quantity of exports to this country appears reasonable.
• Where aggregate applications exceed the quantity of the quota concerned, they shall be met on a pro rata basis, in proportion to the quantities applied for.
• The quantities applied for exceed the quantities available.
• All notifications, including 'Nil' returns, shall be made as indicated in Annex II(B), and shall contain the quantities imported:
• no later than 10 August, of the quantities of products, including nil returns, for which import licences were issued in the previous month, regarding the quantities referred to in Article 1(3)(b) of this Regulation;
• No aid shall be granted if the discrepancy between the quantities accepted for processing and the quantities contracted for is 50 % or more of the quantities contracted for.