Sentence examples for tonne from inspiring English sources

Iron ore is trading at a six-year low of around $US55 per tonne amid weaker Chinese demand.

Some of the individual blocks, finished by hand on site, weigh up to half a tonne.

These investments will deliver a positive return to the CEFC, with a cost of abatement in the order of negative $2.40 per tonne CO2e.

Joe Hockey, the treasurer, on Friday lamented that iron ore prices were not at $180 a tonne as they were in 2011.

Instead, the estimated impact of each tonne of CO2 increases or decreases as scientific knowledge improves.

So where do I get that 3.7bn tonne figure come from?

The initial auction under Direct Action's $2.55bn emissions reduction fund was revealed last week to have purchased 47m tonnes of carbon dioxide abatement at $14 per tonne – a result environment minister Greg Hunt claimed was "stunning" and proved Australia would easily meet its 2020 target of a 5% reduction compared with 2000 levels by 2020.

The refuge provides half a tonne of food each week to Salford's residents and was expected to have fed more than 3,500 individuals by the end of 2014.

About 3,000 people turned up at the farm to see it – [it weighed one tonne in the end].

According to the AI Group's calculations, which assume an abatement cost of $35 a tonne, maintaining Australia's emissions at 5% lower than 2000 levels until 2025 would require at least $19bn to be spent on Direct Action.

It will be the next step in a battle between the company and the surrounding farmers who say the 268m tonne coal mine on the ridge above the Liverpool Plains in NSW could contaminate prime agricultural land and the groundwater below it.