Sentence examples for tonnes of mud from inspiring English sources
A landslide of 600 tonnes of mud and rubble closed a road in Argyll for two days earlier this week.
People whose homes were buried under thousands of tonnes of mud are refused compensation unless they can produce purchase receipts of their personal belongings.
The 5m or more tonnes of mud, along with whatever toxins they contain, will be dug up, transported and dumped into the middle of the reef area.
As part of this work, thousands of tonnes of mud and sand, scooped up from a nearby river, were being pumped directly into the homes of hundreds of local residents – often, the residents say, without warning.
Norman, 68, was killed instantly when her ground-floor flat was destroyed by tonnes of mud and rubble that fell on to her rented property in Looe during torrential rain.
Yanina's mother-in-law described how her son, Jorge Manuel Perez, was watching over the six children on Monday when the Solie river burst its banks, sending thousands of tonnes of mud, debris and water straight through their neighbourhood of flimsy wooden homes on the Dominican side of the border.
"She didn't want to, but she found that to eat the wall was the only way to stop her thinking about it … By the time she was 17 years old she had eaten eight square metres of the wall – more than half a tonne of mud bricks".
Assistant Chief Constable (ACC) James Vaughan, of Dorset Police, said the area around the tunnel had been searched after several hundred tonnes of water, mud, bricks and trees collapsed at the edge and the road was closed.
Concentrating limited resources At an informal meeting of UNICEF and its partners in Gonaïves, several key priorities were laid out – including the need for another site to dispose of the remaining tonnes of dried mud that accumulated after the 2008 storms.
Heavy overnight rain washed about 100 tonnes of rocks and mud down the mountainside on to the carriageway.
Rocks and mud close A83 to drivers Jump to media player The A83, the main road between Glasgow and Argyll, is closed after a landslip of 100 tonnes of rocks and mud.
