Similar words: tonsil, tonsure, moonstone, tonsorial, tonsillitis, upton sinclair, tonsillectomy, foundation stone. Meaning: [tʌn] n. a large number or amount.
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61. That in turn requires extraction and electrolysis of 450 tons of water and liquefaction of the resulting 50 tons of hydrogen.
62. The station also supplied the nearby brickworks with its coal, 23,000 tons in 1898, chiefly from Yorkshire.
63. Clearly, following the decision in Howell v. Coupland, the seller was excused his obligation to deliver 275 tons.
64. The annular tank providing the weight was filled with granite chippings, to make a total of 20 tons.
65. When I started it was about two hundred people per ton and now we produce five tons an hour with three people.
66. This tiny rock carries enough kinetic energy to produce an explosion equivalent to several thousand tons of high explosives.
67. Two associated pneumatic grain elevators with a combined discharge rate of 400 tons per hour were completed soon after.
68. There was just tons of them crawling all over the place, like a bunch of flies on a piece of meat.
69. Next year another new press will be in place, the two producing eighty thousand tons of car panels a year.
70. They sold an amazing 43,000 tons of frozen chips last year, a 25 percent increase on the previous year.
71. Britain spent more than £318 million on glass containers, amounting to some 1.9 million tons of glass, in 1978.
72. The last two columns give the production and export rates in 1975 in million tons.
73. Recycling also saves 1.8 tons of oil for every ton of polyethylene.
74. Meanwhile tons of sound equipment seized by police has today been reclaimed by the people who hired it out.
75. A modest dusting on icy roads and pavements would eliminate slipping and sliding without all those expensive tons of sand and salt.
76. Ahead of it the Wyrmberg turned from a distant toy to several billion tons of rock poised between heaven and earth.
77. The refinery distributes 1.8m tons of fuel a day to keep the northwest on the move.
78. The concession covers an area in the department of Cesar with 100 million tons of proven reserves.
79. The contract was an agreement to sell 275 tons of barley to be grown by the seller on his farm.
80. The design specifications had called for the columns to rest on bedrock that supported a weight of seven tons per square foot.
81. Their combined wheat production fell from 80 million tons in 1968 to 60 million in 1970.
82. By August of 1824 the stamps were pounding away and 50 tons of concentrate were ready for market.
83. The creature itself grows to a hundred feet and weighs a hundred and sixty tons.
84. Tons of railings and beautiful iron statues, some from graveyards,(http://sentencedict.com/tons.html) were melted down for the war effort.
85. Commercial facilities within the state manage 733, 515 metric tons of material.
86. A majority of the industrial groups produce less than 10, 000 metric tons of hazardous waste.
87. Tons of thundering white water separated me from any effective action.
88. Each caisson weighed 240 tons with water in it, and could carry one barge or two narrow boats.
89. That could lead to losses of a significant portion of the 100, 000 tons of city-generated waste handled by county landfills.
90. Between 6,000 and 12,000 tons of ash were sent into the atmosphere, closing airports and causing respiratory disease.