Sentence examples for a billion tons from inspiring English sources

"I'm standing on a billion tons of iron ore," Mr. Ryabov said he told the Chinese visitors.

Environmentally speaking, however, ocean travel can be a dicey proposition: every year, the industry consumes millions of tons of fuel and produces almost a billion tons of sewage.

On this scale, 1m devices would be needed to extract a billion tons of carbon from the atmosphere in a single year.

Thanks to the farm bill's long-standing conservation requirements, soil erosion in the United States dropped by 43 percent between 1982 and 2007, saving more than a billion tons of rich topsoil, according to the Agriculture Department.

I mentioned some of their conclusions in my piece, including the finding that even after losses from human-caused deforestation are taken into account, forests are still absorbing a billion tons of carbon every year.

Officials also said the new program, which is to take effect in 2012, would reduce carbon dioxide emissions by nearly a billion tons and cut oil consumption by 1.8 billion barrels from 2012 to 2016.

It weighed a hundred and fifty tons.

A megaton equals a million tons of TNT.

In 1979, China produced just 34.5 million tons of steel; by 1996, it was producing more than a hundred million tons.

Last year's April harvest totaled 900,000 tons, nearly a million tons short of what was needed.

(Last year, grill owners bought nearly a million tons of charcoal and only 18,000 tons of wood).