Sentence examples for a tonne from inspiring English sources

A decade ago, a tonne of iron ore sold for about US$13.

A tonne of coal fetches around $120.

Maize grains cost about $80 a tonne.

A tonne saved is still a tonne saved.

That's about half a tonne.

Prices have fallen to $3,100 a tonne.

The sludge fetched about $300 a tonne.

International spot carbon prices vary from around US$13£8.4.4) a tonne in California to $6 a tonne in China and $9 a tonne in South Korea.

It crams a tonne of emotion into very few words.

For that use it fetches at most $40 a tonne.

It hit $10,000 a tonne earlier this year, before falling back to $8,400 a tonne now (see chart).