Sentence examples for tonnes behind from inspiring English sources

It will also tow a further 3.5 tonnes behind it.

Fortunately, software that simulates "train dynamics" can work out how best to load and sequence cars by analysing a given route.A train might safely tow 8,000 tonnes behind an empty car on a straight track across a plain, but only 3,000 tonnes on curvy or sloping track.

UK Coal said the mine had "considerable long-term resources" but production was 175,000 tonnes behind budget.

The company has said that although the mine had "considerable long-term resources", production is 175,000 tonnes behind budget, and said it was now considering closing it.

During Japan's initial conquest it captured 4000000 oilbbl of oil (~5.5×105 tonnes) left behind by retreating Allied forces, and by 1943 was able to get production in the Dutch East Indies up to, 76 percent of its 1940 output rate.

Last weekend an estimated 50,000 tourists left 21 tonnes of rubbish behind them.

Most of it flows into the Strait of Georgia, while about 3.5 million tonnes is left behind and deposited in the lower river valley.

When the Chinese coal carrier the Shen Neng 1 ran aground on the Great Barrier Reef in 2010, it scraped a three-kilometre scar along the surface of the reef and left behind tonnes of toxic paint.

The volumes, compared with drug trafficking, are tiny – a handful of Kalashnikovs, as opposed to cocaine smuggled in multiples of tonnes – and the gangs behind the trade are also often tight-knit groups.

Nabi damaged 70 80% of the crops on Saipan and also knocked down many trees, leaving behind 544 tonnes (600 tons) of debris.

"The entire economy is based on flooding"—not just agriculture, which depends on the billions of tonnes of fertile silt deposits it leaves behind, but fishing and communications.