Similar words: tonsil, tonsure, moonstone, tonsorial, tonsillitis, upton sinclair, tonsillectomy, foundation stone. Meaning: [tʌn] n. a large number or amount.
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181. Between 1670 and 1750 the capital's intake of seaborne coal from the north-east averaged an annual half a million tons.
182. Orthodox wooden construction is still being used today for fishing vessels, minesweepers and yachts of up to four or five hundred tons.
183. The 5,000 tons of coal is one of the biggest loads ever to be brought into Sharpness docks.
184. Over a thousand tons of red hot metal shrapnel from the exploded ship rained dawn with the rocks from a black sky.
185. The total mass of carbon works out to about ten tons per person.
186. At the pole, we fill the tanks with 400 tons of water and 700 tons of hydrogen and oxygen.
187. Britain in the same year emitted 2.938 metric tons percapita from the same resources; the United States 5.005.
188. The proposed site is reported to contain around 3.5 million tons of talc.
189. It had a capacity of 20,000 tons in timber silos and was taken over by the Commissioners in 1906.
190. But the reed-slayers declared victory Sunday with a tailgate party celebrating the removal of an estimated 165 tons of the plant.
191. We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons. Jim Rohn
192. And with tons of topsoil, they could still make it a goodish course.
193. These have a radius of about ten miles and densities of millions of tons per cubic inch.
194. Each barge weighs about 850 tons and carries about eleven hundred tons of steel.
195. There he became master of the Emma, a brig of 122 tons.
196. This 7,224-ton daughter of the industrial revolution is repainted every seven years, using 40 tons of paint.
197. Each ship displaced nearly 45,000 tons and carried a crew of 1,900 officers and men.
198. 42 tons of gold were extracted at the mine in 1987.
199. According to Greenpeace, 1,100 tons of munitions were dumped at the site in 1991 and 8,400 tons thus far this year.
200. As a result, they lost tons of money when punk rockers trashed concert halls during their first shows.
201. The ship was carrying 80,000 tons of oil when it hit a rock off Corunna last Thursday.
202. Wallace said they consume 12-15 tons of insects, many of them varieties harmful to crops.
203. In Britain in 1690 three million tons of coal were mined.
204. School students collected tons of drinks cans and bottles for recycling.
205. This time(sentencedict .com), our eggcup could contain thousands of millions of tons.
206. But in their hurry to get off the mountain, exhausted climbers have discarded tons of rubbish.
207. He admitted to smuggling 20 tons of cocaine and pinned Noriega to the shipments.
208. It was an extraordinary 32 metres long, weighing possibly up to 100 tons.
209. Construction will require the transport of over 500 tons of dirt.
210. These have radii of a few thousand miles and densities of hundreds of tons per cubic inch.