Example sentences of "of tons of " in BNC.
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| 1 | FOR THE LAST three weeks , officials of the United Nations Fund for Drug Abuse Control ( UNFDAC ) have been trying to sell thousands of tons of onions . |
| 2 | Thousands of tons of earth had been moved as part of the site development . |
| 3 | EIGHT Yorkshire miners , trapped for 15 hours behind thousands of tons of rock , coal and twisted steel half a mile underground , are expected back at work today after what British Coal described as ‘ a stunningly successful ’ rescue operation . |
| 4 | SNOW , high winds and bitter disagreement yesterday further hampered attempts to tame Mount Etna , which is threatening to overrun the Sicilian town of Zafferana with millions of tons of volcanic lava . |
| 5 | Their descendants left more enduring memorials : magnificent burial chambers , massive structures , involving placing hundreds of tons of carefully shaped stones . |
| 6 | The collapse continued until many thousands of tons of rock were blocking a long section of the underground roadway . |
| 7 | Both countries poured out millions of tons of coal to make good the orders of the international coal trade . |
| 8 | The thousands of tons of steel made real communication impossible . |
| 9 | The factory 's built over a quarry ; the builders used thousands of tons of in-fill . |
| 10 | Later still the ‘ heat waves ’ were thought to be produced by catastrophism — recent calculations by Tokajumi Matsui and Yutaka Abe of the University of Tokyo suggest that billions of tons of meteorites crashed into Earth to drive off the volatile materials and to turn the surface into seas of magma . |
| 11 | For several years , two quarrying companies based in Somerset — Foster Yeoman and ARC — have used their own wagons and locomotives — driven and maintained by BR staff — to haul millions of tons of stone across Britain . |
| 12 | A couple of tons of potatoes to peel . ’ |
| 13 | In the wet , the broad ridge high up to the left is preferable , leading along to the conspicuous profile of Alport Castles — a huge landslip where millions of tons of shales and grits slid forward to create a spectacular feature above the hamlet of Alport . |
| 14 | TOP companies legally dump billions of tons of poisonous chemicals into rivers supplying drinking water , a report revealed yesterday . |
| 15 | The fishermen come back with their holds empty ; the islands have neither birds nor guano ; it is said that the strength of the smell of the gases from the millions of tons of decaying fish is such that it can blacken the hull of a passing ship — a phenomenon known as the Callao Painter . |
| 16 | During the 18th century thousands of tons of stone were won from Tilly Whim and cliffs further west , especially for harbours and fortifications . |
| 17 | The French growers were landed with hundreds of tons of English-type tomatoes unacceptable in the local cooking and unsuitable for canning or preserving . |
| 18 | Operating from one of several palatial villas in Marbella , Spain , al-Kassar was publicly one of the DEA 's most wanted fugitives and privately one of the CIA 's most useful ‘ capabilities ’ , having supplied hundreds of tons of US and Eastern bloc arms to Iran , as part of Oliver North 's efforts to secure the release of American hostages , and to the Nicaraguan Contras as part of Oliver North 's efforts to unseat the Sandinistas . |
| 19 | Similarly , hundreds of tons of china clay , ball clay and stone-flux are prepared , blended and supplied in slip form . |
| 20 | A company called Global Industrial Complex Limited — which has representatives in New York and Dhaka — has proposed shipping millions of tons of toxic waste from Europe and the US to Bangladesh . |
| 21 | His coal pits , famed even outside Britain as the ‘ Ocean Collieries ’ , produced millions of tons of high quality coal . |
| 22 | During its lifetime , both in peacetime and war ( e.g. WW II , Korea , the Falklands and latterly the Gulf ) the railway has carried hundreds of thousands of tons of stores and equipments internally for the RAOC for storage and issue , also to the REME at 34 Base Workshop for repair . |
| 23 | Erm Gascoigne Woods this er this great big erm dump of of coal waste that 's gon na be er left in the Selby area a mile long consisting of millions of tons of of spoil from the tip . |
| 24 | than the thousands of tons of pressure |
| 25 | They were taking part in a crucial first safety commissioning test when hundreds of tons of hot water were pumped through a section of the plant 's miles of piping … and it all passed with flying colours . |
| 26 | They have thousands of tons of them stockpiled on their western front . |
| 27 | Water droplets trap poisonous gases and millions of tons of ash laden with cadmium , lead , mercury and arsenic linger . |
| 28 | A meeting of oceanographers in Massachusetts has said that large-scale testing is needed to establish the ocean 's potential as a dumping ground for millions of tons of sewage sludge and toxic waste . |
| 29 | Allegations made in Moscow suggest that , in contravention of the 1983 London Dumping Convention , Soviet authorities secretly continued to dump thousands of tons of radioactive waste in the sea off the northern coast until 1986 . |
| 30 | According to Mikhail Vinogradov at the Moscow-based Oceanology Institute : " The Dnieper , Dnestr and Danube bring in millions of tons of industrial wastes and pesticides every year , while passing ships drop some 10 million tonnes of oil annually . " |