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Sentence Examples Carr's has three mills manufacturing 300,000 tonnes of food each year for dairy and beef cattle, and sheep. Yields of up to four tonnes an acre had been forecast before weather broke. Households in Wiltshire produce around 250,000 tonnes of household rubbish that currently goes into the county's landfill sites. It normally yields 300 tonnes of whole-crop silage which is placed in a clamp constructed from square bales of grass silage. He pointed out that 100 tonnes of diesel is now being released in a relatively shallow area which is also a major spawning area for pilchards. The province boasts 14,000 bee-keepers that on average produce 88 kilogrammes of honey each and a total of 1,000 tonnes of bees wax annually. Last year, their fleet of 150 mostly chartered ships delivered 15 million tonnes of iron ore to the mainland. She was of 136 tonnes gross and just under 100 feet long and she could carry about 250 tons of cargo. Cargo tonnage also rose by 2.9 per cent in May, with 15, 801 tonnes handled by the airport. Around 150 scrap cars and hundreds of tonnes of waste were burned in the blaze. It was 15 metres across, weighed three tonnes and had an estimated two million calories. They believe that 20 tonnes of dust per acre is enough to make land fertile for a decade. For each tonne of cans that is re-used, 1.5 tonnes of iron ore and half a tonne of coal are saved. Hundreds of tonnes of peat and debris swept down Haworth Moor near Top Withens. We don't know much about what the impact is when hundreds of tonnes of gravel are removed. Production lines were left blackened and charred, hundreds of tonnes of ingredients were ruined. We then visited this to discover that out of the six hundred tonnes, only about fifty tonnes were left by then. Four hundred tonnes were unknowingly imported by a Norfolk company and sold in Britain. This is a record as the average yield in the State is around four tonnes per hectare. The monthly turnover is about four tonnes and she has stocked three tonnes of compost. Show More Sentences An English farmer expects to get at least eight tonnes of wheat out of a hectare. Foreign air freight fell from nine tonnes to just over one tonne, a sharp drop of 85 per cent. Hundreds of tonnes of sewage was stored with the smell making life a misery for residents. It had also booked another tanker, the Cypriot flagged Presnya to carry 28,000 tonnes of aviation fuel from Greece to southern Spain. You put 7000 metric tonnes of polished faceted Granite two hundred miles up in geostationary orbit. Preparing for all these people, and buttressing runways for a plane that can weigh 544 tonnes on takeoff, is not cheap. Apart from giving the children a holiday each year, we also send out many tonnes of humanitarian aid. In India alone it has already distributed 6,000 water storage tanks, 32 million tonnes of bleaching powder and three million chlorine tablets. After the completion of the sixth naphtha cracker, its annual production of ethylene could reach 1.15 million tonnes. In addition to 3,140m3 of benzene, the vessel was carrying 105 tonnes of fuel oil and diesel. Nearly half a million metric tonnes of cereal food aid is needed over the next six months. In 1999, over two million tonnes of sheep dip were disposed of in the soil. There are still millions of tonnes of it in cement sheets, lagging for pipes and boilers, brake linings and other products. The inaptly named dump took in 2 billion tonnes of refuse over its lifetime, growing to three times the size of Central Park. Currently, Namibia has over 40 tonnes of ivory, mostly from elephants killed in other countries and seized in Namibia while in transit. That amounts to 1500 tonnes of glass, plastic, paper and cans going into recycling bins rather than rubbish bags. The magistrates heard that the company manufactured tufted and Axminster carpets and handled 365 tonnes of packaging waste last year. Annual capacity would be 200,000 tonnes, equivalent to 1.7 million barrels or 1.97 million hectolitres of beer. Because the railway networks are straining to transport 400 million tonnes of coal to fuel electricity plants, many other goods are left behind. In 2003 arisings from Construction, Demolition and Excavation Waste were in the order of 6.24 million tonnes. Show More Sentences Union leaders claim there are at least 90m tonnes of unworked coal still in the pit that could take the best part of 20 years to mine. The total production to 1926 was about 5,000,000 tonnes of argentiferous galena from around 300 mines and prospects. This amounts to some 28 million tonnes per year, or almost half a tonne per person. The parking apron is intended for 20 aircraft, or five heavy aircraft and 10 aircraft weighing up to 100 tonnes. The LMZ Artemis has a summer deadweight of 69,714 tonnes, 83,000 tonne displacement, is 228 metres long and has draft of 12.1 metres. The other vessel is the Forest Champion, a handy size vessel with a deadweight of 26,472 tonnes. A 737 freighter can carry about 16 tonnes, and has about 120 cubic metres of volume. The Danes are allowed a quota of over a million tonnes of fish a year to be made into fish meal. The estimates of the total initial recoverable reserves are now as high as 345 million tonnes. I have tonnes of schoolwork, but no more solo trips to universities or anything. The scribble is constructed from 229 separate pieces of steel, weighs 25 tonnes and has 72 twists. He announced yesterday that almost 100 tonnes of food would have to be sourced to avert the threat of hunger in the affected areas. Basking sharks can reach 10m in length and weigh in at anything from 2 to 7 tonnes. In Waterford City, 35 tonnes of packaging waste is recycled each week through the green bin collection. Potatoes are Tassie's most important vegetable with production nudging half a million tonnes a year, a third of Australia's total. The refinery, which processes crude oil, has an annual capacity of around 10 million tonnes. To close it and sterilise what is a Klondike of 100m tonnes of coal would be nothing short of criminal. Castle Point Council has sent a warning letter to a company it believes dumped tonnes of rubble onto land earmarked for a nature reserve. Structural Marine in Western Australia is building us two steel 15 metre workboats of about 18 tonnes. The Royal Navy's carriers will, at 65,000 tonnes, be smaller, but they are likely to have the same propulsion system. Show More Sentences On a worldwide scale an average of 704,000 metric tonnes of general shark meat is sold annually. Around one million tonnes of coal remain to be mined, which at current production rates means 35 weeks more work at the site. Residents will have their say on a scheme which could see a million tonnes of coal mined in their area of Bolton. Materials have included 28,000-ft of scaffolding weighing 72 tonnes, 300 kg of plaster and 880 litres of pink and cream paint. Agriculture performance was robust with the stock of foodgrains crossing 63 million tonnes. Hundreds of thousands of tonnes of cod were taken out each year, building up great fortunes for those that fished it. Some 115 tonnes of reinforcements were used to strengthen the bank's strong rooms. In the construction of the works, the contractor has imported 30,000 tonnes of concrete and 1,500 tonnes of steel reinforcement. With three prime movers involved, the linked convoy weighs nearly 400 tonnes. The contracts, which lasted about 56 weeks, also saw 250,000 tonnes of clay from the nearby Far Ings site used as landfill. The service will see more than 100 tonnes of organic waste diverted from landfill each year. Only two tonnes of liquid chlorine spilt from a storage tank after an equipment failure, but it was enough to cause plenty of drama. Envisat, with its mass of 8 tonnes, will be the heaviest satellite ever to be put into orbit by an Ariane launcher. There were fears hundreds of tonnes of fruit would rot unless the red-tape was lifted. They have pointed out that it takes three tonnes of wild fish to produce one tonne of the farmed variety. The total tonnage handled by the 13 minor ports came to just 100,000 last year, whereas Kochi handled 12.8 million tonnes. The 200,000 tonnes is the lead time needed for the importation of maize seed in the event of any shortfall. He got a yield of six tonnes from the Cabernet and Shiraz variety of wine grapes he cultivated on two acres. It eventually took 90 tonnes of steelwork, 150 tonnes of concrete and 100,000 man-hours of labour to restore. Total tonnages of all grains for the region by the end of last week stood at 208,000 tonnes. Show More Sentences The company was producing 19,000 tonnes each year of electrolytic manganese dioxide exported mainly to the US and Europe. Forty tonnes of acrylic plastic sheeting were on fire with a ruptured gas main underneath which could not be isolated. It stores and processes hundreds of tonnes of toxic and highly inflammable chemicals and compounds. That relatively small slick of about 3,000 tonnes tarred beaches up and down about 125 miles of Spain's Galician coast. Concern arises because landfill sites are the primary means of disposing millions of tonnes of hazardous industrial waste. It produces a yearly crop of around 140,000 tonnes which is processed into products like vegetable oil and margarine. These were huge fishing craft capable of picking up a thousand tonnes of fish in a single haul. The formwork weighs over 110 tonnes and is anchored to the structure at twelve points. More than 70 tonnes of waste and spoil were taken from the site to achieve the levels required for wheelchair access to all parts of the garden. Some 97,000 tonnes of stone were transported in and 10,000 tonnes of ballast laid along the track bed. Factors such as the infrastructure committed to transporting millions of tonnes of coal from mines to washeries and then to power stations. Weighing in at 580 tonnes the postage and packing is going to cost a few bob. Four tonnes of foliage is needed to build each of the 16 fences that feature in the three-day race meeting. Namibia will be allowed to sell 10 tonnes, provided it meets the conditions set by Cites. About 750 million tonnes of sand eels are caught every year for use in fishmeal and oil used to manufacture feed for salmon farms. The EU could import around 200,000 tonnes of rape oil in 2005-06, with most supplies coming from Canada. In addition, the plants would produce 7,313 tonnes of highly radioactive waste with a half-life of 24,000 years. The processors were concerned that between 3,500 and 4,000 tonnes of Zimbabwean soya bean meal was destined for Zambia. The company imported 33,000 tonnes of clinker to support the company's own production in order to maximise cement production. Rice imports grew from virtually zero to 200,000 tonnes a year, at the expense of domestically produced staples. Show More Sentences This EU ruling has resulted in any landings of herring mackerel and horse mackerel exceeding 10 tonnes being weighed. The volunteers collect several tonnes of wood and then chop it into manageable pieces, ready for the fireplace. The FCI has a capacity to store 106.66 lakh tonnes of wheat and paddy, he said. Weighing two-and-a-half tonnes, it was hoisted over the house by crane and then the builder put the roof on. They saw grasses close to six feet in height with the equivalent of five tonnes of dry matter to the hectare. In fact, 47 thousand tonnes of mineralised material sits in a stockpile at the site unprocessed. On the other hand, Bananaland now has 20 tonnes of apples and 20 tonnes of oranges to consume. In the Indian state of Bihar, the government has announced that army helicopters have airdropped about 226 tonnes of food. The measures would stop at least 14,000 tonnes of petrol being released as vapour into the atmosphere each year. The harp seal and the minke whale together consume about the same amount of biomass as the Norwegian fishermen land, i.e. about 3 million tonnes. The project comprised 144.32 tonnes of structural steelwork and 14.16 tonnes of purlins. China has more than 1,900 coking ovens nationwide with capacity of 180 million tonnes. Forty tonnes of marine diesel are still thought to be on board the sunken vessel. The cargo operator expects to handle about 160,000 tonnes of express cargo a year. Some 6,400 yards of new rail, 12,200 steel sleepers and 31,000 tonnes of ballast were used and brought in by train rather than by road. It is estimated that some several million tonnes of CFCs are present in the atmosphere. The remaining 2.17 million tonnes was exported to the mainland or other countries for recycling. Most of this is used by the domestic brewing and distilling industries with some 60,000 tonnes being exported annually. In 2005, about 8,600 tonnes of ethanediol were sold as antifreeze preparations to households. National wheat consumption is estimated at 131,000 tonnes and a further 1,500 tonnes is required for seed production. Show More Sentences The latest details come a week after it was revealed that 1,300 tonnes of paper, cans and plastic bottles have been buried in landfill sites. Four tonnes of hay and straw were also ablaze inside the barn, which was totally destroyed. The plant will still emit almost three tonnes of nitrous oxide, ammonia and other toxins into the Lower Fraser Valley per day. The hull repair completed this July involved the removal and replacement of 100 tonnes of steelwork. The burning of brown coal in Victoria's Latrobe Valley produces about 70 tonnes of uranium oxide per gigawatt of electrical energy per year. The mine has potential to produce 106,000 tonnes per year of copper, gold, uranium and cobalt over its 24-year life. The largest block recorded is the capstone of the tomb at Browneshill, County Carlow, Ireland, estimated to weigh 100 tonnes. It will involve the sinking of a new shaft and construction of an additional three million tonnes per annum concentrator. Helicopters dropped 5,000 tonnes of sand, boron, dolomite, clay and lead onto it. The company makes cable-laid slings that can lift oil rig equipment of up 12,000 tonnes in weight. It also accounts for over a quarter of a million tonnes of carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas. Exports of finished carbon steel during 2002-03 rose by an industry-wide average of 13 per cent and crossed 3 million tonnes for the first time. An excess of 20,000 tonnes went into US bond stores, counting against this year's quota. Monopoly wheat exporter AWB Limited will supply 100,000 tonnes of hard wheat before the end of August, for bread making. Lifting cables, each capable of carrying 900 tonnes, will subsequently be lowered from the pontoon and secured in the holes with steel plugs. The inefficient standard light bulb could be phased out within three years to save up to 800,000 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions. In all, about 28 cubic metres of material, weighing in excess of 40 tonnes, was excavated, all by hand. Every year, thousands of tonnes of perishable goods, from cellophane-wrapped chickens to cardboard-encased ready-made pizzas, end up in the bin. The operations in Namibia will require 20 000 tonnes of cotton lint annually. The chain had been serving 17 tonnes of cod a year, but simply replaced them with fish such as coley, rock salmon, whiting and plaice. Show More Sentences Concrete marble aggregate is one of its key components with 57 white columns, each weighing 29 tonnes, forming the structure of the building. She had visited ten different ports, issued 33,000 tonnes of diesel and aviation fuel and 2,400 tonnes of solid stores and food. Arrangements were made to transfer 150 tonnes of stores to the ship as she transited just north of Darwin. Last year 6,400 tonnes of salt were needed to keep West Yorkshire's motorways and trunk roads snow-free. At times, these vehicles are found injecting tonnes of black exhausts due to run down engines and poor quality lubricants. According to a probe into the dealers, as much as 10 tonnes of African bushmeat may be arriving in London each day. The extra propellant provides an additional 50 tonnes of thrust in the first 20 seconds following liftoff. It is hoped that 1,600 tonnes of garden waste, which would normally find its way into landfill sites, will be turned into compost. Some 15.7m long with a maximum loaded displacement of 24 tonnes, they have a top speed of 24 knots and a range of 210 nautical miles. According to P. Manoharan, Project Director, PACHE Trust, a tonne of paperboard could be manufactured from three tonnes of sugarcane pulp. Hard to believe that 500 million billion tonnes of ice sheet has disintegrated in less than a month. The CVF carriers will be capable of embarking an air group of 50 aircraft and weight 60000 tonnes. The composting facility became operational in March this year and so far, 15 tonnes of vermi compost has been sold. The tax for heavy vehicles above 12 tonnes will be calculated in a new manner, which will reduce it slightly. It is estimated that the gas-fired plant will reduce the amount of carbon emissions into the atmosphere in Southampton by 85,000 tonnes a year. There is a condition restricting the output of gritstone from the Old Hutton quarry each day to 400 tonnes. With a central buffer food stock of over 40 million tonnes, Mr Prime Minister, could you ask for a better start to your tenure? A century ago there were more than 40 smokehouses in Hull, curing thousands of tonnes of fish landed at the docks. Authorities have already distributed 8,600 tonnes of rice and 13.68 million taka in cash to flood victims. The carrying capacity of these vessels is between 1,000 and 4,000 tonnes and up to 5,000 tonnes in the case of Russian vessels. Show More Sentences The pit is now producing 10,000 tonnes of coal a week, which is 2,000 more than before the mine went into receivership. On the day I had to feed out twelve tonnes of finishing mix, four tonnes of starter mix, and two tonnes of hay, the wind was blowing a gale. Of the proposed tankage, 1.5 million tonnes will be built at Mangalore and one million tonnes at Vizag. Last year China produced 1.03 billion tonnes of coal or one third of the total world production. As much as 8,220 tonnes of garbage had been picked up by local garbage collectors on Chinese New Year's Eve, officials said. Around 2.5 tonnes of supplies were due to dock with the space station last night. A small sheet of steel mesh offered some small measure of protection from the thousands of tonnes of boondies. The school collected ten tonnes of scrap paper in a year, as part of the school's recycling partnership project. Around 78 000 to 100 000 tonnes of myrobalan nuts are estimated to be produced annually. More than a quarter of the core is severely fire-damaged and contains around 15 tonnes of nuclear fuel, some of which melted inside the core. A demolition worker escaped unhurt when several tonnes of rubble fell on the digger he was driving today. He said 42,289 tonnes of meat and bonemeal was produced from animals killed and rendered under the culls forced by last year's crisis. For the first time, Europe will now be able to place into geostationary orbit a payload weighing more than 10 tonnes. A helicopter is being used to shuttle hundreds of tonnes of gravel to the remote trail to transform one section of the renowned mudbath into an easy stroll. The country's 300 salmon farms produce 160,000 tonnes of fish a year. The London Assembly has launched an investigation into why 600,000 tonnes of raw sewage was pumped into the Thames last month, killing thousands of fish. Fresh life is to be breathed into degraded peat moors in the Peak District over the next few weeks by a massive airlift of hundreds of tonnes of heather. They have all been scrapped and now make up 1,200 tonnes of square baled metal, the first consignment of which was transported to the Netherlands last Thursday. A specialist cleaning company had to send in people wearing protective clothing and breathing masks to clear what turned out to be six tonnes of waste. The ship carries up to 1,200 tonnes down to Ayrshire once or twice weekly. Show More Sentences Together they have 7743 metric tonnes of wet fish quotas, namely hake. Now there are 75 tonnes of plutonium and 3,336 tonnes of uranium recovered from reprocessing, all stored and closely guarded but with no obvious use, at Sellafield. It is now being claimed that approximately 8 million tonnes of recoverable peat exist in the area, making the proposed development of a new power generating station viable. Here at home, Western Australia's grain handling group CBH believes the state is on target for a winter crop of 12 million tonnes, down two million on last season. The spillage that occurred recently was in the region of five tonnes. The Council of Agriculture yesterday urged that annual domestic production of milkfish should not exceed 40,000 tonnes in order to maintain reasonable prices and profits. Now WRG is seeking approval from the Environment Agency for its plan to landfill the site in three phases over the next 10 years at a rate of 250,000 tonnes a year. Since the light aircraft from Christchurch to Napier can hardly lift nearly three tonnes of baggage, the luggage has to come via road after taking a lengthy detour. The after-school club, which was started three years ago, is now aiming to recycle 50 tonnes of paper, which will make it eligible for the platinum award. The salvage team took emergency action to block splits below the waterline as an estimated 1,000 tonnes of water flooded the vessel's lower car deck. They have been tearing away at the rubble for a week now, and more than 10,000 tonnes has been removed, But it has hardly made a dent in the mountain. The export created shortages within India and several million tonnes then had to be reimported by the Indian government at the world market price. Since leaving the UK at the beginning of the year, the ship has steamed 42,000 miles, discharged 60,000 tonnes of oil, and refuelled ships 95 times. Some 1,300 tonnes of concrete have been poured into the foundations, topped by 125 tonnes of structural steelwork and surrounded by 15,000 concrete blocks so far. About 400 farmers from various parts of the country prevented a shipment of 3,100 tonnes of wheat being offloaded from a ship that had docked at Drogheda Port 10 days ago. Battling with dance partners measuring 12 to 15 feet in height, if she steps on their toes, as opposed to a polite shove, Tracy has several tonnes of water landing on her. Some 348,000 tonnes surplus from cassava flour is expected from a total production of 958,000 tonnes while total requirement for various uses is 609,000 tonnes. It's tonnes of fun, dancing and drinking cheap beer to frenzied mandolin picking while one of the vets oversees, clad in grey flannels, blazer, beret, and a strip of medals. Ispat Karmet produces 5.2 million tonnes, a little less than the Soviet peak because the open-hearth plant was shut down for environmental reasons, say company officials. Had the obelisk been successfully completed, it would be the single heaviest piece of monolithic stonework reaching about 42 m and weighing over 1168 tonnes. Show More Sentences At the average grand prix there are 4000 VIP guests who between them guzzle down 2,300 lobsters, 1.4 tonnes of beef, 1.2 tonnes of fish and 5,500 magnums of champagne. The DRS said stringent safety measures were in place and the forged steel containers, known as flasks, holding the waste, were 30 cm thick and weighed more than 50 tonnes. The plant will have the licenced capacity to process 13,000 tonnes of crushed animal bones into 3000 tonnes of ossein and 6000 tonnes of dicalcium phosphate. I would come into New Zealand, trawl for sea snails, and accidentally catch 20 tonnes of orange roughy, scampi, or whatever it is that happens to be valuable. Annual catches by French vessels in Rockall peaked at 3500 tonnes in 1991, but have since fallen to fewer than 500 tonnes as stocks of orange roughy are rapidly depleted. The Dublin Port Company was corporatised in 1997 and has doubled profit levels and trade from 10 million tonnes to 22 million tonnes in the last five years. To relate this to current practice a tractor and trailer combination today with a load of sugar beet or barley would have a gross weight of over 20 tonnes. The maize harvest, which begins in April, was expected to be 1.9 million metric tonnes but this had now been reassessed at 1.5 million metric tonnes. Mr Walsh said it is intended that some 400 tonnes will be made available as canned stewed beef and corned beef for use by charitable organisations within Ireland. Every year the Commission's North York Moors Forest District produces 100,000 tonnes of timber, mostly going towards chipboard, pallets and construction materials. It is expected to handle 900,000 tonnes of perishables daily. According to the Council of Agriculture, the government has about 2,964 tonnes of vegetables in cold storage and it released 301 tonnes yesterday to supply retailers. Criminal and civil proceedings are being prepared against rogue operators who dumped tonnes of blood-soaked hospital waste and personal records on farmland in Wicklow. Yes I am losing my blubber, but I have tonnes of it left to lose. However, most will not be able to plant a smaller third crop and already the Agriculture Ministry says 500,000 tonnes of unhusked rice would be lost. Last week government officials told the press that more than 120,000 hectares of rice fields had been destroyed and almost 300,000 tonnes of unhusked rice ruined. Each year 2000 tonnes of the gas is generated by electrolysing water. A figure of a gross weight of about 30 tonnes was mentioned. At present Lafarge is due to cease operation at the site in two years, but it is asking for additional time to extract the 1.5 million tonnes of unworked gritstone reserves. They sell tonnes of electronics, mostly working, for dirt-cheap prices. Show More Sentences Instead, maintains Grams, we grow softwoods for short-term economic reasons, and import seven out of the eight million tonnes of timber used in construction annually. A staggering 25 tonnes of rubbish and building rubble was left behind after the four day encampment on the main car park at Pennington Flash Country Park. About 18 years ago the captain of the mv Superior Producer, a freighter of around 1500 tonnes displacement, got it wrong and ended up on the rocks. Nine dumper trucks carrying 35 tonnes of rock at a time plough backwards and forwards from the lip of the causeway, dumping smaller rocks and huge armouring against the tides. It expects total production for its six major crops wheat, barley, durum, canola, flax and oats to reach 50 million tonnes this year, up from 43 million last year. The spiny lobster and sand lobster totalling about 2,600 tonnes are caught annually from the inshore waters by mechanised and non-mechanised units. It is now hoped to use 100,000 tonnes of material, to be excavated during the construction of a new pier in Cromane, for building up embankments in the area. A total of 40 tonnes of cornmeal was due to be handed out on the first day but aid officials could not confirm if the entire amount was doled out. The company is currently investigating two locations for the project, which will eventually produce 2000 tonnes a year of dolphinfish for the export market. Millions of tonnes are spewed out of vehicle exhausts and power station smokestacks every year, as well as being released from the soil when fields are ploughed. Total manufacturing capacity is estimated at 500 tonnes a year. At the latest count, some 110,000 tonnes of fish, including the rare Danube sturgeon, the huchen, and 18 other protected species, have been killed. In the interim, at least 150,000 tonnes of maize, about half of the anticipated shortfall of 300,000 tonnes will be imported as relief to affected families. Planning permission has already been obtained for the terminal and British Gas intends to contract for the use of 2.2 million tonnes a year of capacity. In addition to 1.5 million foot passengers through Dublin Port last year, there were 300,000 car arrivals with 7,600 ships unloading 21 million tonnes of freight. Between 1850 and 1870 some 37,000 tonnes of guano were mined and trammed off Middle Island to tall sailing ships bound for developing agriculture markets in Europe. In addition, 132 million wet tonnes of agricultural wastes, effluent and sludges are generated in Ireland annually and are a major cause of harmful greenhouse emissions. That would be about 900,000 tonnes of unmilled rice, or paddy. Many embankments, timber revetments and masonry river walls from the 10th to the 15th centuries were recovered, and tonnes of artefacts retrieved. Nine tonnes of waste are generated to create a 2.3kg laptop computer. Show More Sentences Within the brick hulk, where floors can support a live load of 3 tonnes per square metre, up to 700 parking spaces and a services level can be tucked out of sight. Lafarge, which employs 15 people at the site, says a reduction in demand for aggregates means there will be 1.5m tonnes of unworked reserves left by the 2005 deadline. Last year the total production of Scottish salmon was 120,000 tonnes. The only survivor of a warehouse collapse yesterday recalled the terrifying moment when sixty tonnes of rubble crashed down on him, burying him and three other men. The powdered basalt, granite and other volcanic rock is a by-product of quarrying and hundreds of thousands of tonnes of the material is lying unused around Scotland. Hundreds of tonnes of soil were also removed to make a 300-metre road along the river bank, reducing the width of the waterway to just two metres at places. Its output of particles is approximately one million tonnes per second. He points out that India had, in 2001, over 60 million tonnes of foodgrains stored in reserve, much of it open to the weather and subject to spoilage. If 20 tonnes of highly radioactive liquefied uranium and plutonium fuel had leaked out of a reprocessing system you'd think there might be a bit of a fuss wouldn't you? Three million tonnes are exported to other countries, the rest part is used in steel mills in Isfahan and Ahvaz. According to a heavilyresearched hypothesis, more than 50 million metric tonnes of HeLa cells have been created over the years. Quoting a Kazakh security source, Interfax said around 170 tonnes of heptyl, a highly toxic rocket propellant, were burning at the scene. As of 2016, the world's largest gold producer by far was China with 450 tonnes. At 10 parts per quadrillion the Earth's oceans would hold 15,000 tonnes of gold. In 2014, annual global production of lead was about ten million tonnes, over half of which was from recycling. One estimate is that this location produced an estimated million tonnes of metallic zinc and zinc oxide from the 12th to 16th centuries. Another estimate gives a total production of 60,000 tonnes of metallic zinc over this period. Zinc is the fourth most common metal in use, trailing only iron, aluminium, and copper with an annual production of about 13 million tonnes. About two thousand years ago, emissions of zinc from mining and smelting totaled 10 thousand tonnes a year. According to the statistics released by Emirates Steel, consumption of rebar in the UAE in 2012 reached 160,000 metric tonnes per month. Show More Sentences More than 4000 tonnes of concreate base slabs have been placed to provide the foundation. The official landings figures for Scotland indicate over 2,000 tonnes of winkles are exported annually. At the beginning of 2011, Indonesia produced 3 million tonnes of seaweed and surpassed the Philippines as the world's largest seaweed producer. The port's busiest year was 1956, when 1,155,076 tonnes of iron ore alone were exported. The vessel belonged to FARC rebels and had the capacity to carry at least 7 tonnes of drugs. As the permafrost melts, it could release billions of tonnes of methane gas into the atmosphere. Since 2006, Hvalur has caught more than 500 fin whales and exported more than 5000 tonnes of whale meat to Japan. Modern turbines uses a couple of tonnes of copper for generators, cables and such. In 2000, about 12,000 tonnes of thorium and 5,000 tonnes of uranium were released worldwide from burning coal. Close to 6,000 ships dock at the Port of Oslo annually with a total of 6 million tonnes of cargo and over five million passengers. Japan, France and the Republic of Korea also contributed, producing 261 000, 238 000 and 115 000 tonnes produce, respectively. Between 1950 and 1995, an estimated 600,000,000 tonnes of phosphorus was applied to Earth's surface, primarily on croplands. The combined EU fishing fleets land about 6 million tonnes of fish per year, of which about 3 million tonnes are from UK waters. In December 2007, thousands of tonnes of oil were spilled into the North Sea during the loading of a tanker at the Statfjord oil field. Following is a table of the 2011 world fishing industry harvest in tonnes by capture and by aquaculture. A Carbon accounting showed in 2009 that the municipality ejected some 32,500 tonnes of CO2 per year. Size has also increased, some designs reaching up to corvette size, 800 tonnes including a helicopter, giving them extended modes of operation. Some 250,000 tonnes of Portland Stone was used in creating the 875m breakwater and associated reclaimed land. The crane operates at the facility's rail head which is handling more than 200,000 tonnes a year. In 2003, the total aquaculture production was predicted at 1,301,437 tonnes. Show More Sentences The system sets separate letter and periodical rates for countries which receive at least 150 tonnes of mail annually. Manx cheese took bronze medals in the 2005 British Cheese Awards, and sold 578 tonnes over the year. The report estimated between 7,000 and 14,000 tonnes of CFCs are smuggled annually into developing countries. The world annual catch of forage fish in recent years has been around 22 million tonnes, or one quarter of the world's total catch. In an unfortunate case of an accident, high pollution is a risk as a ship may carry thousands of tonnes of fuel for her own consumption. In addition to passengers, 12,000 to 14,000 tonnes of cargo are normally carried by Scillonian III and Gry Maritha every year. The mode of Mesozoic dinosaur body masses is between one and ten metric tonnes. The Latrobe Valley in the state of Victoria, Australia, contains estimated reserves of some 65 billion tonnes of brown coal. A more recent sale in 2008 of 108 tonnes from the three countries and South Africa took place to Japan and China. The production of meat has grown from 6,813,000 tonnes in 1999 to 9,331,000 tonnes in 2008, and continues to grow. The plants will power about 39,000 homes and save 27,850 tonnes of carbon emissions per year. Russia has already supplied 82 tonnes of fuel for Bushehr and plans to take back the spent material to avoid any misuse. All Gulf Pack machines are of Bruckner make and recently it started its third metalliser to take metallising capacity to 12,000 tonnes. With 866 registered cargo and passenger vessels, the average transport rate in 2008 was 400 tonnes per day. Sugarcane crop is able to efficiently fix solar energy, yielding some 55 tonnes of dry matter per hectare of land annually. In 2006, 30,936,931 tonnes passed through the port, of which 14,541,961 was the commercial sector, and saw 1,453,513 passengers. In 2016, Tyne Dock, South Shields was still involved with coal, importing 2 million tonnes of shipments a year. Hashi Energy has announced the securing of the monthly contract to supply 124,000 metric tonnes of gas oil in October. On Wednesday, Qatar sent two planeload of aid materials to Sudan, bringing the total Qatari assistance to 95 tonnes. In this method, phosphate rock is used, and more than 100 million tonnes are processed annually. Find more words! 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