Sentence examples for a couple of tons from inspiring English sources

"It's an incredibly expensive way of delivering a couple of tons of high explosive," says Professor Rogers.

A horse that could haul maybe a couple of tons on a good road could pull more than 20 times that along the canal.

I've been thinking this through because it's the cheese awards coming up and after the judging I'm going to be left with a couple of tons of cheese that I'm going to convert into the smelliest substance in the universe.

This summer, in the new Harborplace shopping complex in the inner harbor of Baltimore, a place called Wings 'n Things opened with the announced intention of dealing in the sort of volume hitherto common only within Buffalo itself — a couple of tons of wings a week.

Art 'Obsession' John Bisbee, a sculptor from Maine, took a couple of tons of long nails, welded them together in perfect alignment and created the illusion of a silvery, menacingly beautiful sidewinder undulating its considerable length across the floor of the Cummings Art Center at Connecticut College.

"'People who know far better than me are happy with Compton, so I'm happy with that - I just don't think he's proved it yet.' Dude's scored two centuries in two matches - what exactly do you want?" I'm not saying he'd under-delivered in this series, far from it - just that proving yourself at Test level takes more than a couple of tons on flat tracks against a fairly weak attack.

"The challenge was finding a practical way to go from a lab-size operation that produces a couple of hundred tons a year to several thousands of tons a year".

"A couple of thousand tons of hazardous chemicals we got stuck with.

In Tuesday's Times, I write about the flaring of natural gas from pipes, pits and hundreds of oil wells in the Bakken shale field of North Dakota and Montana, which emits a couple of million tons of carbon dioxide annually.

The Queen had a couple of hundred tons o cement poured in her stern, to patch up a hole she got running aground in Cherbourg, then last Nov. the cement was replaced by plates.

Hands Free Hectare's final yield was a couple of metric tons lower than the average from conventionally farmed land — and the costs in both time and money were, unsurprisingly for a pilot project, stratospherically higher.