At the end of the century, they and the city's other horses were daily leaving in the city streets up to 3,300 tons of what one 19th-century scholar of horsepower politely referred to as "the rejected potential energy of incomplete chemical action".
Not only are they giving away a ton of old 19th-century literature in e-book form, but they're a special "first edition" e-book with the original typeface and illustrations baked in.
Hundreds of thousands of enslaved Africans had labored to make Saint-Domingue, as Haiti was then known, the richest colony on earth, a vastly productive slave-powered factory producing tons upon tons of sugar cane, the 18th-century's great cash crop.
The European Union affords approximately 24.5 million tons per year, and Romania produces 740.118 tons of grapes ranking the 19th place in the world (in 2010).
Some ad campaigns have ended up getting a business tons of likes from some 3rd world country where the business doesn't operate.
During construction 200 odd tons of dynamite stored on corner 42nd St. & Fourth Ave.
Those who were in New York after the Sept. 11 attack may remember both the chaos of the relief efforts — 18-wheel tractor-trailers were lined up along 14th Street with tons of things like unsorted clothes, the rescuers working without protective gear in the smoking ruins — and also the strong tonic effect of people marshaling themselves from around the country, offering help.
Our rehearsal hall is on Eighth Avenue in the high Thirties -- a bit of garment district, a bit of spillover from 42nd Street -- tons of places to eat and not one of them calling me.
Energy consumption per capita is 7.8 tons of oil equivalent per year, the 10th highest rate in the world.
Fish was an important element of the Cornish diet, but international commercial fishing was also well established by the 16th century, and tons of pilchards were exported from Cornwall to France, Italy and Spain every year.
The convention's 40th anniversary welcomes tons of old hands, as well as newcomers and teenagers who stand by their puppets even if it means they get bullied at school.
