Sentence examples for one and a half tons of from inspiring English sources

Repeated like a mantra by Administration officials was the claim that Saddam Hussein possessed "26,000 liters of anthrax, 38,000 liters of botulin, one and a half tons of nerve agent VX, and 6,500 aerial chemical bombs".

Salt had to be hauled a long way uphill from a faraway coast, and the Swiss authorities, for reasons best known to themselves, levied taxes according to the number of cheeses sold rather than their net weight, which incentivized the production of oversized wheels (the typical Emmentaler is three feet in diameter, weighs two hundred and twenty pounds, and uses one and a half tons of milk).

So now, almost 30 years and dozens of projects later, Dr. Greeley, who lives in St. Davids, Pa., watched anxiously on Monday as one-and-a-half tons of steel and aluminum, two turbines that have taken years to design, were lowered into the fast green waters south of Shelter Island.

Mrs Trabelsi reportedly fled the Arab nation with up to $37.5m in gold bars, although the central bank has denied that its vaults are missing the one-and-a-half tons of bullion.

CORRECTION: An earlier version of this article listed the debris remaining afloat as between "one-and-a-half tons" and "five tons".

It will also house the temple's controversial Baphomet monument, a one-and-a-half-ton, nine-foot bronze statue of the goat-headed satanic figure.

This one-and-a-half-ton painting was commissioned by the monks of San Giorgio Maggiore, and shows Jesus turning water into wine.

Like Ford's other Super Duty trucks, the Platinum F-Series will be offered at three-quarter-ton, one-ton and one-and-a-half-ton load ratings, although the true load capacities of the trucks far exceed those numbers.

"One acre of mangroves drops three and a half tons of leaves each year," he said, gesturing to a flurry of green in golden sunlight.

Every ton of coal we burn, for example, puts three and a half tons of CO2 into the air.

Crowds lining the couple's one-and-a-half mile route to Buckingham Palace are expected to leave 140 tons of rubbish.