Sentence examples for tonne compared with from inspiring English sources

Rice is now about $1,000£50707) a tonne, compared with about $350/400 at the start of the year.

And it paid on average $14 a tonne, compared with an international carbon price of between $10 and $12.

The going rate for tungsten is around $16,000 per tonne, compared with almost double that a year ago.

Iron ore now fetches $178 a tonne, compared with $13 a tonne in 2001.Broader measures of raw-material costs have jumped as well.

The company also outlined a mixture of alternative scenarios, some of which presume much more policy action to counter global warming, including one with a very high carbon price of $100 a tonne (compared with around $5 a tonne now).

The dry spell at the start of this summer means that the price of straw could be "horrendous" this year – up to a £100 a tonne compared with as little as £60 last.

This year it is forecast to eat 71m tonnes compared with America's 33m tonnes.

Australian presses squeeze out just 20,000 tonnes a year and California's merely 7,000 tonnes, compared with 1m tonnes from Spain.

But by 1992, the biomass of spawning cod off Newfoundland and Labrador had fallen to only 22,000 tonnes, compared with 1.6m tonnes 30 years earlier.

For the first time last year, we actually recycledf more of our household waste than we sent to landfill – 10.7 million tonnes compared with 9.6 million (only 10 years ago, 22 million tonnes was put in the ground).

Last year its exports reached 190m tonnes, compared with Australia's 126m.Indonesia's exports to "Chindia" made up 14% of its total exports last year, more than those to America (10%).