Sentence examples for thousands of tones from inspiring English sources

"It starts to multiply, the grading of tones, until it becomes thousands of tones," he reflected.

"While a lot of substances are more toxic than glyphosate, the broad usage of hundreds of thousands of tones of it – particularly on GM crops – is absolutely not a sustainable way to do agriculture or soil use".

"How can I explain to the woman that I treasure all the riches of those dozens of coats of paint, those thousands of tones?" The fact is, he can't.

This building had decades earlier, housed thousands of tones of peanuts- the main cash crop of The Gambia.

The effective mouthpiece allowed production of tones to the 11th or 12th partial, but it appears unlikely that these unusual instruments had much influence on later European horns.

It fits comfortably into the 20th-century tradition of tone poems of the dissolving self in a harsh world.

On Friday, played by Valérie Hartmann-Claverie, it evoked less the future than the wavering voice of an old lady, a sound from the past, against the 21st-century tones of the xylophones and the timeless crash of cymbals.

A dissenting 3rd-century voice was that of Sextus Empiricus, who said that music was an art of tones and rhythms only that meant nothing outside itself.

It works because Higgins is such a deft student, not of the bargain-basement Sovietalia that thrillers and fantasies usually settle for, but of Russian history's richer surfaces, inward and outward: the wolfhound 20th century's tones of voice, fears, hopes, styles of desire and torture and town planning.

Among the principal eccentricities of this year's Proms schedule, the Granville Bantock retrospective continued with The Witch of Atlas, which opened Vladimir Jurowski's concert with the London Philharmonic, a programme of turn-of-the-20th-century tone poems, with Prokofiev's modernist Third Piano Concerto thrown in for contrast.

Brazzaville, Republic of Congo, 12 January 2010 – On January 7th and 8th, UNICEF started the delivery of 19.8 tones of nutrition kits, tents, prescription drugs, school in a box and recreation kits and water tanks to the department of Likouala, in Northern Congo, (Brazzaville).