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  • I next tried to see some of it from the Thames on the London Eye River Cruise where I learned that Big Ben is not the clock tower: the clock tower is St. Stephens, and Big Ben is the 1.5-ton bell inside.

    Margie Goldsmith: Royal Wedding Fever - Bespoke Style Margie Goldsmith 2011

  • Power and data connections must be made before the 7.5-ton instrument is operational, but it should begin collecting data soon.

    Endeavour crew hooks up $2 billion cosmic ray detector 2011

  • He followed this feat with an even more spectacular one in 1973, dragging the 2.5-ton Naha Stone in Hawaii, which supposedly qualified him to rule as king.

    Singing Strongman Chased Olympic-Sized Dreams Stephen Miller 2011

  • I next tried to see some of it from the Thames on the London Eye River Cruise where I learned that Big Ben is not the clock tower: the clock tower is St. Stephens, and Big Ben is the 1.5-ton bell inside.

    Margie Goldsmith: Royal Wedding Fever - Bespoke Style Margie Goldsmith 2011

  • The company sent one of the two 1.5-ton molds for the parts to a factory near Tokyo so that facility also could produce the parts.

    Japan Foundry Rebuilds; Orders Scarce Gordon Fairclough 2011

  • Indeed, Aunt Cécile has relocated for work -- as a mime, as a circus-tent technician -- and, most recently, as a driver for a punk-rock band (she holds a poids lourds* license for her 5-ton truck).

    la frangine - French Word-A-Day 2009

  • Indeed, Aunt Cécile has relocated for work -- as a mime, as a circus-tent technician -- and, most recently, as a driver for a punk-rock band (she holds a poids lourds* license for her 5-ton truck).

    French Word-A-Day: 2009

  • Indeed, Aunt Cécile has relocated for work -- as a mime, as a circus-tent technician -- and, most recently, as a driver for a punk-rock band (she holds a poids lourds* license for her 5-ton truck).

    French Word-A-Day: 2009

  • Indeed, Aunt Cécile has relocated for work -- as a mime, as a circus-tent technician -- and, most recently, as a driver for a punk-rock band (she holds a poids lourds* license for her 5-ton truck).

    Characters 2009

  • Associated Press Researchers tested Tiangong-1, the 8.5-ton module whose name translates as 'Heavenly Palace-1', in the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center.

    China Launches Space Module 2011

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