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Just seventy pounds of glass in the form of optical fibers can transmit as much telephone traffic as one ton of copper.
Together these two men have a ton of movie and television experience and they move with the practiced ease of true professionals.
As well as sustaining many sea birds, they are hoovered up by the ton for the animal feed industry and over-fishing is probably involved.
Half a ton of horseflesh running scared across a battlefield is a frightening and dangerous prospect.
Our plan for the next day is to dive the Letitia, a 5764 ton passenger liner converted to a hospital ship.
Save yourself a ton of money and the local landfill a ton of space, and buy reusable cloth diapers.
Cows weigh the best part of a ton and can easily outrun the average person.
A grain of musk perfumes a room for years, and a single grain of indigo colors a ton of water.
Much of their life is in the pages and before you ever meet these famous personalities, you know a ton about them.
The Grane was a 1122 ton Norwegian collier, torpedoed by UB80 on 9 March 1918 and more broken up.
But this is just so run-of-the-mill, the pap churned out by the ton in the early sixties.
The five ton aircraft normally carries about two tons of crop dusting chemicals.
There was a ton of applicants, and the seven of us were the final cream skimmed off.
We hired a swing band, so there was a ton of dancing and I was light on my feet well past midnight.
The site slices and dices crime information in a ton of different ways, complete with a wide assortment of Google Maps.
In a crash test, the same bollards stopped a 7.5 ton vehicle traveling at 44 miles per hour.
There they drink a ton of excellent wine, eat the most exquisite shellfish-stuffed quenelles, and take a cab home.
What we didn't know was that the company had splurged on an open bar and a ton of delicious food for everyone.
The environmentally friendly toilet needs only one ton of water for lifelong use.
I'm crazy for the slouchy, midcalf, flat boot with a ton of side buckles, another huge footwear trend.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Roots are grubbed by the ton and are subjected to destructive distillation.
The consumption was found to amount to 929 pounds net weight, being at the rate of one third of a pound per ton per mile.
Fads for the latest personal accoutrements gripped the bon ton in seasonal epidemics.
And this adds greatly to the cost of converting a ton of pig iron into steel.
The reports, too, are at least as often made as ounces in the short ton of 2000 lbs., as on the more orthodox ton of 2240 lbs.
It is not bon ton to be learned, but it is a graceful thing to indicate that you have forgotten a good deal.
Further, the inventor claims for it the production of bleaching powder at a less cost per ton than by any other process.
English coal, which in 1912 cost about nine shillings a ton at pithead, costs considerably more than thirty shillings today.
Even if half an assay ton has been taken the only calculation needed is multiplying the milligrams by two.
It runs three hundred dollars to the ton in horn silver, and looks more like jewels than mineral.
A ton on some other planet, where the attraction of gravity is less, does not weigh half a ton.
For every ton of raw materials and semifinished products America agreed to furnish to France, she furnished two tons.
In the neighbourhood of this ton or dun of Elbo there are persistent traditions of a spectral hound or bandog.
On an average six tons of bauxite are required to make one ton of metallic aluminum.
In theory, to produce the quantity of chlorine contained in a ton of bleaching powder containing 37 per cent.
My breast has felt the last four-and-twenty hours as if a ton of kentledge had been stowed in it.
Thatll weigh a ton by the time we get to clintonia, he grumbled, as he eyed it with considerable apprehension.
We only got a ton after all, when we should have liked a dozen or fourteen tons!
We'll get more ounces to the ton out of our crushings than they ever heard of on the Rand, too.
We also purchased about a ton of yams, which we could easily dispose of at a good profit, in New Britain.
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