6 sentences with 'tons'
Example sentences and phrases with the word tons and other words derived from it.
• « I knew for a fact that there were tons of people with far more serious problems than mine, and that some of them were probably in the same emergency room, listening to my screams and moans. »
• « Two and a half million rivets were used, and the total weight of the tower reached 7,000 tons. »
• « Each building block for the pyramids weighed about 2.5 tons and had to be transported by ramps with ropes and pulleys. »
• « Potosi had the most enormous silver deposits in the world at the time, producing thousands of tons of silver for the crown. It also represented a horrible place of slave labour for the natives of the whole area. »
• « The trucks are working day and night, transporting 1000 tons of ore per hour. We follow the truck and catch up with it as it arrives at the primary crusher, an inverted pyramid-shaped stockpile, ten metres on each side, perched at the top of a ramp. »
• « A recent measurement by the Mexican Department of Ecology showed a shocking figure: 150,000 tons of toxic substances per day are released into the atmosphere. Sulphur and nitrogen oxides, hydrocarbons, lead particles, manganese, nickel, copper, zinc and coal. Such a menu is part of the industries and the thousands of cars that overflow Mexico City. »