Example sentences of "[verb] [num] tonne " in BNC.
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| 1 | The main supplier to Billingsgate Fish Market in London , the Dornoch Firth fishery produces 2,300 tonnes a year , of which 40 per cent is exported . |
| 2 | However , perseverance paid off and , after melting and filtering 256 tonnes of ice , the team came up with 10,000 micrometeorites . |
| 3 | In 1981 the world produced 323000 tonnes , and 180000 of those tonnes grew in California . |
| 4 | They eat more in the Irish Republic ( 23.7kg per capita ) , which is a major beef-exporting country producing 570,000 tonnes per annum but only consuming about 84,000 tonnes at home . |
| 5 | The company produced 211,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide in 1991 , although it was unable to compare its emissions with the previous year . |
| 6 | Steel rise : Steel production in Britain averaged 339,700 tonnes a week in April , 0.9pc higher than in March and 1.7pc above the figure for April 1991 . |
| 7 | Overseas Contracting performed well due to the Kosice contract in Slovakia where we laid 118,000 tonnes of asphalt from July to November and successfully completed our first asphalt runway in Eastern Europe . |
| 8 | Under the programme , which was drawn up by the EC Commission , Albania was to be given 50,000 tonnes of EC wheat ; further donations amounting to 100,000 tonnes of wheat were to be canvassed from other Western countries . |
| 9 | THE Community yesterday promised 44,000 tonnes of new food aid for Ethiopia in an effort to save millions of people threatened by starvation . |
| 10 | THE Community yesterday promised 44,000 tonnes of new food aid for Ethiopia in an effort to save millions of people threatened by starvation . |
| 11 | This experiment , by scientists from the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Bombay , and the Universities of Osaka and Tokyo in Japan , contains 140 tonnes of iron interlaced with detectors to pick up possible products of proton decay . |
| 12 | This apparatus , set up by physicists from Frascati , Milan and Turin , contains 134 tonnes of iron . |
| 13 | Zinc consumption was forecast to reach 5,360,000 tonnes in 1989 , a 2 per cent rise over 1988 levels , while production was expected to total 5,310,000 tonnes , up 1 per cent on 1988 . |
| 14 | This will include 5 tonnes of computer paper , 4 tonnes of mixed colour letter paper and 3 tonnes of white letter paper . |
| 15 | The European Commission announced on Sept. 3 that it would buy 45,000 tonnes of surplus Hungarian wheat for transportation to Albania by rail in December . |
| 16 | On the on the You There was only the was only er three quarter of an inch out of centre sort of thing you know , but the shaft weighed ten tonne and you have this huge and it just l revolved of course and and the whole lot revolved under this cap . |
| 17 | Mr Jonathon Porritt , director of FOE , said that a typical nuclear plant created 230,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide each year once construction of the plant and mining and enriching of uranium were taken into account . |
| 18 | Attempts are being made to link gasifier deployment with the planting of fast-growing species such as the ipil-ipil ( Leucaena leucocephala ) , which may yield 25 tonnes of dry wood per hectare per year . |
| 19 | The new car body weighed 9.55 tonnes , and the unladen weight of the complete car proved to be 17.29 tonnes . |
| 20 | British Coal have permission for an opencast mine at Yorkley in the Forest which will yield 80,000 tonnes in 3 years . |
| 21 | To meet its target set out in forthcoming European Community [ EC ] legislation , the UK must recycle 80,000 tonnes of plalstic packaging each year . |
| 22 | A large English opencast operator , Banks , which is working several sites in Scotland , plans to extract 76,000 tonnes of coal and 10,000 tonnes of fireclay . |
| 23 | The UN High Commissioner for Refugees , Sadako Ogata , urged the US to double the amount of food it has been parachuting into Srebrenica and send 60 tonnes a day . |
| 24 | Plutonium still in AGR and Magnox reactor fuel was estimated to total 8–5 tonnes ; discharged but not yet reprocessed plutonium amounted to 3–5 tonnes ; while plutonium awaiting processing , but in an intermediate form , came to just half a tonne , the same amount as had been exported for civil purposes . |
| 25 | Federal officials made the world 's largest seizure of cocaine in Los Angeles in September when they raided a suburban house and found 20 tonnes ( 44,080 lb ) of cocaine . |
| 26 | The worts are collected in specially designed 20 tonne giant kettles , to ensure a vigorous mixing and boiling with the hops which are added at this stage . |
| 27 | The loco , who was on her way back from a three-months-long loan spell at the Battlefield Line in Market Bosworth , also shunted at the Colliery , currently producing 30,000 tonnes of power station rail-borne coal every week . |
| 28 | Mr Risbridger said they planned to invest and upgrade dock facilities by developing riverside berths capable of handling 8,000 tonnes . |
| 29 | The Rand Mines Group 's new R690,000,000 platinum mine at Crocodile River , near Brits , 60 km north of Johannesburg , was officially opened on Nov. 20 , 1989 , with ore production expected to reach 160,000 tonnes per month by the end of 1990 . |
| 30 | With regard to landfill gas , as my hon. Friend knows , in addition to the schemes that should come on stream as a result of today 's announcement , there are some 36 landfill gas utilisation schemes in the United Kingdom , saving 160,000 tonnes of coal equivalent per annum . |