Sentence examples for of large tonnage from inspiring English sources

Russian officials said they suspected that the Kursk was sunk after striking a submerged object of "large tonnage," like a foreign submarine, and they were busy scouring the seabed for evidence.

For lower-grade deposits located near the surface, the open-pit method is the most practical for the mining of large tonnages of material.

The WC55Y shield hauler was used in the relocation of the LLTCC coalface at 14 20 m thick ultra-thick coal seam in the Tashan coal mine to successfully solve the relocation problem of large-tonnage hydraulic support at a LLTCC coalface.

Late tonight, Mr. Klebanov, who is heading an investigation, said at a news conference in Murmansk that it appeared that the Kursk sank after a collision with "some external object of very large tonnage" that delivered "an extremely strong dynamic blow" to the forward section of the submarine, where a "terrible hole" was opened, causing forward compartments to flood.

The workhorse aircraft for this mission would be the B-52, which is able to carry a large tonnage of munitions and release it quite accurately from high altitude.

Some of the largest tonnages of products moved in the United States are products of mines, such as iron ore and coal.

While they do not move large tonnages of product, service industries have logistical needs of their own.

This operation requires large tonnages of sulfuric acid.

Large tonnages of limestone are loaded at Rockport and Rogers City, Mich.

Besides most gold and much silver, large tonnages of copper and zinc are produced by hydrometallurgy.

The advantages of using pure oxygen instead of air in refining pig iron into steel were recognized as early as 1855 by Henry Bessemer, but the process could not be brought to commercial fruition until the 20th century, when large tonnages of cheap, high-purity oxygen became available.