Sentence examples for tonnes up from inspiring English sources

Annual gold demand averages 4,400 tonnes, up over a third in a decade.

Its output this year could top 85,000 tonnes, up from 60,000 tonnes last year.

The total was 4,782 tonnes, up from 4,127 tonnes.

Brazil hopes for a record harvest of grain (including soya) of 84m tonnes, up 9% on last year.

China, which in 2006 took over the US's historical position as the world's biggest emitter, raced ahead in 2010, emitting 8.3bn tonnes – up 15.5% on the previous year, and a 240% increase since 1992.

China's steel exports reached a record 112.4m tonnes last year, up 19% – but their value fell 10.5% to $62.8bn£43.2bnbn) as a result of falling prices.

Import duties in Pakistan, a big buyer of palm oil, will not rise until February; and China's import quota is expected to rise to 2.1m tonnes this year, up from 1.5m tonnes in 2000.In this section ECONOMIC FORECASTS OUTPUT, DEMAND AND JOBS COMMODITY PRICE INDEX PRICES AND WAGES Reprints.

As much as half of all the food produced in the world – equivalent to 2bn tonnes – ends up as waste every year, engineers warned in a report published on Thursday.

Oil World forecasts that global production will reach a record 46.9m tonnes this year, up from 45.3m in 2009, with most of the increase coming from Indonesia.The oil palm is an efficient crop, yielding up to ten times more oil per hectare than soyabeans, rapeseed or sunflowers.

The IPLOCA/BP studies concluded that the more modest ability to carry 75 tonnes travelling up to 800km was more feasible and still very useful says Philippe Lopez, one of the engineers who carried out the research at BMT Syntek, a firm based in Arlington, Virginia.

In the Reference scenario, only 7%% of the total demand is attributed to rail (in terms of tonnes) reaching up to almost 9 % in 2050.