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Example sentences for "hundred tons"

  • In two or three years business increased to a hundred tons daily.

  • Ambriz (Captain Crookes); and its successor, containing the produce of a hundred tons, on the B.

  • The Effuenta can now bring to bank, with sufficient hands, at least a hundred tons a day of good paying ore; whereas the stamps can crush at most one-tenth.

  • Well, Edgar, if there are a hundred tons of such goods as you describe, your cargo must be a valuable one indeed.

  • A hundred tons of such carpets as those, Edgar, would be worth a very large sum, indeed; surely you must be mistaken?

  • At any rate there is something between eighty and a hundred tons of them.

  • It was me and Stanley Hicks that divided the trade of the place, which was poor to middling, with maybe a couple of hundred tons of copra a year and as much pearl shell as the natives cared to get.

  • Their work-day being an eight-hours day, it has taken them eight thousand working hours to produce a hundred tons of steel--eight hours a ton.

  • He telegraphs to an agent telling him to buy a hundred tons of tea; he freights a ship, and in a few weeks, in three months if it is a sailing ship, the vessels brings him his cargo.

  • Thus a corporation would say: "Here are a hundred tons of steel.

  • It was a very minor shock, about the intensity of the explosion of a hundred tons of high explosive a very long distance away and barely strong enough to record its location, which was Boulder Lake.

  • The detonation of a hundred tons of high explosives or an equivalent impact can be heard for thirty miles, but at that distance it doesn't sound much like an explosion.

  • The Army dumped a hundred tons of high explosive into the lake.

  • The brig was, of course, much deeper in the water, now that she had more than a hundred tons of yams aboard, but she moved along very quickly.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    broadcast station; cabin passengers; fatal result; hundred acres; hundred and; hundred and fifty pounds; hundred and fifty thousand; hundred and fifty years; hundred crowns; hundred cubits; hundred days; hundred dinars; hundred ducats; hundred gold; hundred head; hundred heads; hundred leagues; hundred louis; hundred men; hundred millions; hundred other; hundred paces; late father; mile limit; only look; thy house