Metric-tons Sentence Examples

In 1885 Uruguay imported most of her breadstuffs; now not only is wheat grown in sufficient quantities to meet the local demand, but a surplus (about 20,000 metric tons in 1908-9) is annually available for export.

As a producer of iron Russia nevertheless runs France neck and neck for the fourth place amongst the iron-producing countries of the world, her annual output having increased from 1,004,800 metric tons in 1891 to 2,808,000 in 1901 and to 2,900,000 in 1904.

In 1906 the total production reached 169,418 metric tons.

Production is steadily increasing, the export having been 8000 metric tons in 1900, 17,386 in 1905 and 20,000 in 1906.

Owing to the export tax on rubber (8 cents per kilogram on jebe and 5 cents on caucho) it is probable that the official statistics do not cover the total production, which was returned as 2539 metric tons in 1905, valued at £913,989.

The production of this field increased from 1730 tons in 1892 to 78,500 metric tons in 1899.

In 1903 371,084,000 metric tons of goods, including animals, were conveyed by the German railways, yielding 68,085,000 sterling, and the number of passengers carried was 957,684,000, yielding 29,300,000.

The trade of the port increased from well under 1,000,000 tons in 1876 to 6,164,873 metric tons in 1906 (the latter figure, however, includes home trade in a proportion of about 12%).

The table gives the outputs in metric tons of the most important producers in 1900 and 1905 (from Rothwell, Mineral Industry, 1908).

The most prominent and profitable of these is that of rubber-collecting, which was begun in Bolivia between 1880 and 1890, and which reached a registered annual output of nearly 35 oo metric tons just before Bolivia's best rubber forests were transferred to Brazil in 1903.

The total output, coming chiefly from the departments of Bacau, Buzeu, Dimbovitza and Prahova, was 250,000 metric tons in 1900, 615,000 in 1905, and 1,300,000 in 1909.

It was here that depleted uranium ammunition was used for the first time - more than 30 metric tons - 300,000 rounds in all.

By 1980 the catch nearly halved to 45,000 metric tons.

Russia has over a thousand metric tons of highly enriched uranium, plus 150 metric tons of plutonium.

The proposed US facility would be capable of destroying 800 metric tons of weaponized agents each year.

This would be a relatively sudden and dramatic increase over and above the 730 billion metric tons already in the atmosphere.

In July, Taiwan donated 40 metric tons of rice to the people of Tanzania.

The production of coal and lignite averaging 33,465,000 metric tons in the years 1901-1905 represents about 73% of the total consumption of the country; the surplus is supplied from Great Britain, Belgium and Germany.

The annual rate of soil loss in the SALT farm is 3.4 metric tons per hectares, well within the tolerable limits.

According to the Environmental Protection Agency, the United States emitted more than 7.2 billion metric tons of greenhouse gases in 2005.

In 2004 that equaled 314 million metric tons of carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere just from the United States.

The Norwegian Dream has a fuel capacity of 1,150 metric tons which converts to 354,144 gallons.

Freedom of the Seas has a fuel capacity of 3,533 metric tons.

It has a fuel capacity of 4,381 metric tons.