Sentence examples for more tonnes from inspiring English sources

The railway must be flat, so every metre it is extended means removing and disposing of more tonnes of radioactive soil.

In 2012 China consumed 600m more tonnes of coal – or more than 70% of the United States' annual total – than previously disclosed, according to the revised data.

Delaying a ban until 2020 means millions more tonnes of fish are going to be pointlessly wasted, a situation we simply cannot afford to allow to continue.

The 5m or more tonnes of mud, along with whatever toxins they contain, will be dug up, transported and dumped into the middle of the reef area.

In fact, the world will burn around 1.2 billion more tonnes of coal per year by 2017 compared to today – equivalent to the current coal consumption of Russia and the United States combined.

He said aviation would contribute "meaningfully" to the target even if Heathrow expansion goes ahead, which would generate 2.6m more tonnes of carbon dioxide a year and raise the annual number of flights from 480,000 to 702,000.

Chlorella strain CH2 has the potential for more than 80 tonnes of biomass, 32 tonnes of protein and 22 tonnes of lipid per year under favourable climates.

Diners currently chomp through more pork some 114m tonnes a year compared with 106m tonnes for poultry.

More than 60 tonnes of uranium compounds (corresponding to 22.5 tonnes of elemental uranium) were produced.

The US has crushed more than 5 tonnes of Ivory while China has set fire to 6 tonnes of confiscated tusks and carvings.

More than 8.5m tonnes of coal were dug last year compared with less than 1m tonnes in 2005; and by 2020 companies could be extracting more than 20m tonnes a year.