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Example sentences for "thousand tons"

  • It would require a thousand tons to make an impression, and that only a temporary one.

  • By the close of 1869, it is expected the product will reach a thousand tons daily.

  • Tilden, with carrying capacity of a thousand tons burden, but just launched from the stocks.

  • Bradley, that will carry a thousand tons of iron ore.

  • He is largely interested in a mining company near Massillon, having three engines and three openings there, and can mine a thousand tons of coal per day as soon as the road from Massillon to Clinton is completed.

  • She was a Clyde-built vessel of, as I have already said, exactly a thousand tons; her length was not far short of two hundred and fifty feet.

  • The vessel in question could scarcely have been less than a thousand tons.

  • Lying at a certain port on the Florida coast is a large steam-yacht, of upwards of a thousand tons.

  • With the completion of the Erie Canal in 1825 the commercial greatness of New York was assured, and her Atlantic packets increased in size and numbers, averaging a thousand tons each in the zenith of their glory.

  • Until that time there had been few ships afloat as large as a thousand tons.

  • Thus every cubic millimetre of the universal ether of space must possess the equivalent of a thousand tons, and every part of it must be squirming internally with the velocity of light.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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