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  • noun Plural form of tonnage.

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Examples

  • But the only way to move heavy tonnages is through it and bigger and more powerful Manhattans will do this.

    S.S. Manhattan's Northwest Passage Voyage—Observations by Canada's Representative 1970

  • Import activity by the Brazilian states of Santa Catarina and Espirito Santo, which last year took advantage of tax breaks to import large tonnages of cheaper steel, also has fallen off, according to the analysts.

    Brazil Steel Imports to Fall on Weaker Demand Diana Kinch 2011

  • "Softer volumes than normal are now expected for coal haulage for quarter four, with downside risk of continuing wet weather and uncertainty around final customer tonnages."

    QR National Records Profit After Privatization David Fickling 2011

  • So anyone who is looking at needing to drop tonnages of fat, go see your GP first.

    Cheeseburger Gothic » Burger lite. 2010

  • Exchange stores are the flophouses of the metals world: resting places for tonnages with nowhere else to go.

    Copper Enters the No-Fly Zone Liam Denning 2011

  • I went for what I thought was a meat ball and salad sandwhich , but which was really an experiment in stress testing a garbage bin lid sized plate by overloading it with staggering tonnages of fries, fist sized lumps of meat, a few leaves of wilted lettuce, and a gallon of melted cheese.

    Cheeseburger Gothic » Transit Day. 2009

  • The photosynthetic processes of healthy ecosystems remove vast tonnages of C02 from the atmosphere.

    Ron Dembo: The Day After the Al Gore Movie 2008

  • The termination of Conops at three operations during the March 2008 quarter caused underground tonnages and, to some extent, the grade to drop due to the reduction of the labour force and, in some instances, transferring labour to other operations, Harmony said.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2008

  • The US sought to send the USNS Comfort and the USNS Mercy, hospital ships whose tonnages both exceeded 69,000 tons each, through the Turkish Straits but Turkey would not allow it.

    WAR WARNING 2008

  • "The Accord calls for voluntary 15 percent energy saving within ten years but the progress is slow - it's complicated by complex mining conditions such as increasing depth, and this requires additional energy to produce the same tonnages," Morison said.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2008

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