There were one and a half tons of dried vegetables.
This stock was eked out by some two and a half tons of dried fruits, chiefly from South Australia.
About six and a half tonsof the latter in addition to one ton of canned potatoes were consumed; from Laver Brothers (Melbourne) and Heinz (Pittsburgh).
As a result of twelve hours' work, five and a half tons of coal were dragged up and stowed under the veranda.
On the same night nearly one and a half tons of bombs were dropped on a German aerodrome near Metz, good bursts being observed in the hangars and hutments.
West of this place naval machines dropped three and one-half tons of explosives on the Burbach works, and other factories as well as railway communications were attacked with good results, many explosions being noted.
Let seven and a half tons of cleaned cane per acre be assumed for the illustration.
These seven and a half tons of clean cane will yield: 750 pounds of sugar.
Sorghum will yield seven and a half tons of cleaned cane per acre more surely than corn will yield thirty bushels or wheat fifteen bushels per acre.
Now don't you think that if you really tried you could handle 47 tons of pig iron per day, instead of 12 and a half tons?
Of course this was above the average, which is only about four and one-half tons over a series of several years.
These amounts of grain and the two bushels of clover seed might be sold from the farm, while the two and one-half tons of straw, one and one-half tons of stalks, and three tons of clover might be returned to the land.
The Illinois Station reports having grown eight and one-half tons of alfalfa per acre in one season.
When fully loaded it weighed about eight and a half tons, but no scales big enough to weigh it were obtainable in the service.
Trim, clean, grey, and rigged true, and just tipping the scales at four and a half tons, No.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "half tons" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
