Sentence examples for half a tanker from inspiring English sources

It was this thought that caused John Martin, once head of the Moss Landing Marine Laboratories in California, to declare, "Give me half a tanker of iron, and I'll give you an ice age".

It takes two and a half days when a tanker is empty and four and a half days when full.

"You hear stories about tankers pulling into gas stations and people are already waiting — and they have half a tank," Dr. Medlock said.

A tanker spilled a half-million gallons of crude oil into the Mississippi River, closing a busy shipping route and threatening wildlife.

Of Holloway's heroism a witness recalled: "The MTB skipper took her alongside a mass of flames that had been a tanker, and leapt with half his crew into the blazing sea to rescue a dozen Norwegian seamen".

That month, a tanker was hijacked north of Somalia; it was ransomed for thirteen and a half million dollars, setting a record.

This summer, one of the warmest on record in the Arctic, a tanker set a speed record by crossing the Arctic Ocean in six and a half days, carrying a cargo of natural gas condensate.

A tanker of water".

"I have chemicals in a tanker.

"We are talking about $1 billion" a tanker.

In July 2008, the towboat was pushing a tanker barge when it collided with a tanker ship.