Sentence examples for to tonnes from inspiring English sources
noun
A metric unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms. Symbol: t
Around Caserta the authorities have counted 152 contaminated "lakes" which appeared in the 1990s when the mafia helped itself to tonnes of sand for illegal construction and dumped chemical waste in the pits left behind.
"That will increase to tonnes per second and by this time next year, after it has completed its journey past the sun, Comet 67P may well have lost about a metre of material from its entire surface".
From next year around 330,000 government employees will have access through ContactPoint, a government database, to tonnes of information about everyone in England under the age of 18.Some worry that something vital has been lost in all this activity: education itself.
Under the plan, the existing system of fishing quotas - which often leads to tonnes of perfectly good fish being dumped at sea - will be reformed.
This is then followed by a conversion step to go from money units to tonnes (needed because subsequent sub-models, such as modal spit, are in tonnes).
The unused shells sometimes are sold to poultry farms as feed but the quantity thus used is not comparable to tonnes of waste that is generated.
During construction, the weight had increased from 149 to 170 tonnes; to reduce this to 158 tonnes, the original idea of step-free access was discontinued.
Total LNG bunker demand in the port of Antwerp is forecast to amount to 21,081 tonnes in 2015 and to grow to 74,391 tonnes by 2020 and to 155,914 tonnes by 2025.
The beef mountain is expected to double, to 1.5m tonnes.
Coal has been in freefall for years, with production in 2001 down to 78m tonnes compared to 500m tonnes in the late 1950s.
They wanted the catch to be limited to 15,000 tonnes.
