The truck had toppled and crushed the three girls beneath several tons of bricks.
(During a break-in, last summer, thieves took several tons of lead).
Cyclists don't have several tons of steel to protect them if someone else makes a mistake.
They added several tons of iron – 14 tons of iron, or ferrous sulfate — to the water.
Narco-subs that can carry several tons of product per trip.
At one house, soldiers found several tons of thick cable that had been dug up from underground.
"In the 90's, Iraq admitted having 8,500 liters of anthrax and several tons of VX," he said.
At Katmai National Park, we packed off several tons of trash from as distant as South Asia.
The gliders carried troops and several tons of equipment and were useful in dropping them behind enemy lines.
I got someone to come with several tons of large pebbles to spread around the muddy edge.
Several tons of food, water pumps and medicine have arrived from Kuwait, according to IRNA, Iran's state-run news service.
