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- noun Plural form of
tonne .
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Examples
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David McAvoyCautley, Cumbria• Your report 24 May states that the former mayor Gary Shaw uses the expression "tonnes and tonnes".
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Surely 4000 tonnes is enough to build a huge moon base or several stations in interesting places across the Solar System or any other plan.
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I can just consume my fresh supply of garlic in tonnes and keep my labmates out of the odour range.
Baked garlic bilbo 2006
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I can just consume my fresh supply of garlic in tonnes and keep my labmates out of the odour range.
Archive 2006-04-01 bilbo 2006
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[Cunard’s] flagship vessel weighs 151,400 tonnes is anybody’s guess.
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[Cunard’s] flagship vessel weighs 151,400 tonnes is anybody’s guess.
Master and captain 2009
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[Cunard’s] flagship vessel weighs 151,400 tonnes is anybody’s guess.
Master and captain 2009
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A 378 can’t really hold much (34 tonnes is not much; the ship is ~3000 tonnes).
A Coast Guard that guards everyone else’s coast « Antiwar.com Blog 2008
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In the long-term the country is aiming to produce 600,000 tonnes, that is about three times current production.
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This compares with the yield of a conventional cane type at 17.4 tons per hectare, sugar output at 6.9 tons, ethanol production at 1.4 kiloliters and bagasse volume at 7.8 tonnes, which is too small to produce sufficient energy for a processing plant.
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