Example sentences of "ton of [noun] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He also pointed out that for years waste from 7,000 tons of asbestos a year had been dumped in quarries near Athy and Drogheda . |
| 2 | Once fully operational , they should process 3,000 tons of effluent a day . |
| 3 | By the third day of the war , Pentagon officials boasted of being able to drop as much as 5,000 tons of bombs a day on Baghdad — double the amount dropped by Allies during the 1945 bombing of Dresden . |
| 4 | Pakistan and Afghanistan together produce something like 1,200 tons of hashish a year . |
| 5 | Some estimate the volcano is pouring out one million tons of debris a day , at a rate of 15 ft per second , from a fissure that opened in mid-December . |
| 6 | Before the war Burma had produced seven million tons of rice a year , about half of which was exported . |
| 7 | In 1496 he was able to tell his royal employers that he had found a goldfield of El Doradan proportions , capable of producing up to 3 tons of gold a year , enough to justify the cost of his four expeditions . |
| 8 | It drove a scoop wheel of 28 foot diameter which could raise 25 tons of water a minute , and was used until 1940 when a diesel engine and centrifugal pump replaced it , until the station was closed in 1980 . |
| 9 | Bulmers is doing so well that it 's going to need an extra two hundred tons of apples a day from local growers … |
| 10 | Growers are expecting a bumper apple harvest this year , so they 'll be able to supply the extra 200 tons of apples a day Bulmers want . |
| 11 | For over 2 months now , 1,200 tons of apples a day have been arriving at the Bulmers Cider factory in Hereford . |
| 12 | This character moving at a snail 's pace on a table is Helix Aspersa Maxima … the Large Grey Algerian.And if you 're partial to munching the odd mollusc … he 's quite the tastiest morsel there is.Here at the L'Escargot Anglais snail farm in Herefordshire , Tony Vaughan produces four tons of snails a year … that 's around half a million individuals.He set the business up three and a half years ago after leaving the army.And now he 's supplying restaurants and supermarkets , as well as exporting to Eastern Europe : |
| 13 | The Greenland Hunters and Fishermen 's Organisation will be paid US$400,000 for each of the 1993 and 1994 fishing seasons to surrender its right to net 213 tons of salmon a year . |
| 14 | The Greenland fishermen will be allowed to go on catching 12 tons of salmon a year for subsistence purposes . |
| 15 | Sharpness on the Severn estuary normally handles hundreds of ships and thousands of tons of cargo a year , but that all stopped at lunchtime when the dockers walked out . |
| 16 | Dutch farms produce 84 million tons of manure a year , 13 millions more than the land can absorb . |
| 17 | The transportation of early vegetables such as cabbages , Brussels sprouts , and young onions began in March , with asparagus following until June , and after the strawberry harvest , the plum season in August and September , which had the Midland conveying a thousand tons of plums a week . |
| 18 | A wagonway was constructed to carry coal from local pits to the wooden staithes — the wharves where ships lined up for loading — and brick houses were built for miners and dockers in the town that was exporting four million tons of coal a year by the end of the nineteenth century . |
| 19 | It is estimated that the 150 men could produce 10,000 tons of coal a week . |
| 20 | Forty thousand tons of traffic a year passed through the locks at the height of their commercial usage . |
| 21 | The CARE airlifts are carrying in more than 100 tons of food a day . |
| 22 | It can produce up to forty thousand tons of paper a year . |
| 23 | The works produced a million tons of steel a year . |
| 24 | Each American household generates , on average , more than a ton of rubbish a year . |