Example sentences of "[num] tonne of [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ All in all we have removed 10 tonnes of ammunition from the inside of the U-534 . |
| 2 | A Greek-owned oil tanker , the Aegean Sea , ran aground and exploded off the north-western Spanish port of La Coruña on Dec. 3 , spilling an estimated 70,000 tonnes of oil into the sea , with serious ecological consequences . |
| 3 | For example , although they do not know it yet , EC taxpayers will probably end up paying $580m on a cut-price sale of 200,000 tonnes of butter to the Soviet Union which is currently being completed . |
| 4 | Three thousand tonnes of equipment from the steel works , which closed two years ago with the loss of 1,200 jobs , has been bought by the Chinese and is to be shipped out of Birkenhead docks to Shanghai . |
| 5 | Three thousand tonnes of equipment from the steel works , which closed two years ago with the loss of 1,200 jobs , have been bought by the Chinese and is to be shipped out of Birkenhead docks to Shanghai . |
| 6 | Three thousand tonnes of equipment from the steelworks , which closed with the loss of 1,200 jobs , has been bought by the Chinese and is to be shipped out of Birkenhead docks to Shanghai . |
| 7 | Estonia , Latvia and Lithuania had each received 100,000 tonnes of grain from the USA at the beginning of 1992 . |
| 8 | A 6 per cent voluntary cut in the 155,500 hectare quota for the UK would be about 10,000 hectares , which would take an estimated 400,000 tonnes of potatoes off the 1993/94 market . |
| 9 | Each year , mining strips 28 billion tonnes of materials from the earth , and creates 2.7 billion tonnes of waste . |
| 10 | Castro described as an " unbelievable " achievement the harvesting of 7,000,000 tonnes of sugar in the current " special period " of extreme rationing of fuel , food and transport . |
| 11 | GTI has particular expertise in wood-burning gasifiers for making lime : its largest installation consumes about 0–8 tonnes of wood per tonne of lime produced ; traditional methods consume up to 2–5 tonnes of logs for the same result . |
| 12 | Sucden and Phibro contracted this year to buy 500,000 tonnes of cocoa from the Ivory Coast , the world 's biggest producer . |
| 13 | The Brazilian space institute , INPE , estimates that the fires have released between 6 and 12 million tonnes of ash into the atmosphere . |
| 14 | If left unchecked , the fire could consume 24 million tonnes of coal in the next 100 years . |
| 15 | It put 16 million tonnes of material into the upper atmosphere . |
| 16 | In other words , without continued energy efficiency improvements , Europe , North America , Japan and Australasia would need the equivalent of an extra 1,300 million tonnes of oil over the next 7 years . |
| 17 | Admiralty Pacific would like to send 25 million tonnes of garbage to the islands over the next five years . |
| 18 | The distribution of ECU200 million of emergency food aid ( promised at the EC Maastricht conference in December ) had begun in January ; the food was to be sold in Moscow and St Petersburg at controlled prices in an attempt to restrict inflation , but the first shipment of 130 tonnes of beef from the UK was refused entry at Moscow because of fears of bovine spongiform encephalopathy [ see p. 37534 ] . |
| 19 | A Russian , the first of nine charter flights due to ferry in nine hundred tonnes of rice over the next two weeks . |
| 20 | Few will ever get rich , but between them they 've produced , in recent years , nearly five hundred tonnes of gold in the Tappajoss region alone . |
| 21 | It expects a further 29 tonnes on completion of the CEGB/SSEB Magnox programme plus an additional 34 tonnes of plutonium from the existing and committed AGR programme . |
| 22 | British boats will now be able to take 28,000 tonnes of mackerel to the west of their own zone . |
| 23 | The 20 tonnes of lead in the batteries has been found to have an immeasurably low level of background radiation . |
| 24 | For the past 100 years it has ejected more than 1,000 tonnes of chlorine into the atmosphere every day . |