| Worldwide, about 1200 million tons of fixed nitrogen circulates annually between growth and decomposition primarily with the decomposer bacteria. |
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| On that particular Thursday night 180 persons were killed in London as a result of 251 tons of bombs. |
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| Also for sale was 5 tons of potatoes, 50 cartloads of mangold wurzels, 5 tons of hay, 3 tons of barley grain, 35 cwt of bran and 10 tons of lime. |
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| The cargo carried on these lines was of a very high volume, and in 1850 the Taff Vale Railway was transporting 600,000 tons of coal per annum. |
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| By 1913, this had risen to 10,700,000 tons, making Cardiff second only to Barry, Wales as the largest coal exporting dock in the world. |
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| In 1933, Chatterley Whitfield Colliery became the first Colliery in the country to mine one million tons of coal. |
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| The Ministry of Defence estimates that there is well over a million tons of munitions at the bottom of Beaufort's Dyke. |
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| In the first month of operations at Richborough, 5,000 tons were transported across the Channel, by the end of 1918 it was nearly 261,000 tons. |
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| Of the 360 submarines that had been built, 178 were lost, but more than 11 million tons of shipping had been destroyed. |
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| More than 10 million tons of crustaceans are produced by fishery or farming for human consumption, the majority of it being shrimp and prawns. |
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| The estimated world total of plutonium in the year 2000 was of 1,645 metric tons, of which 210 metric tons had been separated by reprocessing. |
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| Around 11 metric tons of plutonium may be possessed by Japan alone, with 36 tons pending return after reprocessing in Britain and France. |
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| A switch to carbon fiber in the structural spar of the blade yields weight savings of 20 to 30 percent, or approximately 15 metric tons. |
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| The 2006 northwest Atlantic cod quota is 23,000 tons, representing half the available stocks, while the northeast Atlantic quota is 473,000 tons. |
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| Between 100,000 and 170,000 wet tons of Macrocystis are harvested annually in New Mexico for alginate extraction and abalone feed. |
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| Between the 1950s and the 1980s kelp production in China increased from about 60 to over 250,000 dry weight metric tons annually. |
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| The estimates vary widely but it seems to be clear that more than a hundred thousand tons of munitions were sunk. |
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| The first submarine had 238 ton displacement on the surface and 283 tons submerged. |
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| However, the London Naval Treaty after World War I limited tonnage of warships, but placed no limits on ships of under 600 tons. |
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| The first successful oil tanker was Zoroaster, which carried its 242 long tons of kerosene cargo in two iron tanks joined by pipes. |
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| The array is intended to reduce annual CO2 emissions by about 900,000 tons, equal to the emissions of 300,000 passenger cars. |
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| The 237 tons prototype Wave Dragon was towed in March 2003 to the first test site at the Danish Wave Energy Test Center in Nissum Bredning fjord. |
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| In addition, they grew from 100 tons to 300 tons displacement, enough to carry cannons as armament and still have space for cargo. |
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| Vesuvius, a torpedo boat of 245 tons, was Vernon's experimental tender for the conduct of torpedo trials. |
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| These were known as the Admiralty Quarries, and provided 10,000 tons of stone per week for use on the breakwaters. |
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| These elongated bull boats were capable of transporting two tons of fur down the shallow waters of the Platte River. |
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| By 2012, some 25,000 tons of red deer were raised on farms in North America. |
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| After the Roman emperor Trajan's conquest of Dacia, he brought back to Rome over 165 tons of gold and 330 tons of silver. |
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| Estimated to be double the size of Texas, the area contains more than 3 million tons of plastic. |
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| The TAC for 2011 was set at 0 tons, ending targeted fishing for the species in EU waters. |
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| By 1968, landings for the fish peaked at 800,000 metric tons before a gradual decline set in. |
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| With the reopening of the limited cod fisheries in 2006, nearly 2,700 metric tons of cod were hauled in. |
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| The total catch in 2012 was 754,131 tons, the major fishers being Norway and Russia. |
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| Illegal, unregulated, or unreported fishing catch between 11 and 26 million tons a year which accounts for one quarter of global catch. |
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| In 1993, a group formed to clean it up, adopting the mummichog as a mascot, and has removed thousands of tons of contaminated sediment. |
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| Metallurgical products movement are more than one million tons per year and maize exports to Spain vary between 800,000 and 1 million tons. |
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| Fertilizers are a traffic of 500,000 tons per year and sulphur from Lacq, albeit in sharp decline, is 400,000 tons. |
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| Its capacity rating was 150 tons per hour, but its actual maximum capacity was 200 tons per hour. |
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| Thus the brand-new caravel which took Cadamosto to Senegambia in 1455 was a vessel of some fifty-four tons capacity. |
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| Capacity is also available for the export of an additional 1000 metric tons of cobbed beryl per year. |
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| The great width of the rivers allowed the development of flatbottomed boats capable of carrying hundreds of tons of cargo. |
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| At its peak of production in 1913, nearly 233,000 men and women were employed in the south Wales coalfield, mining 56 million tons of coal. |
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| In the aftermath of the war, hundreds of thousands of tons of chemical weapons were disposed of by being dumped in the North Sea. |
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| Twelve wagons were loaded with stones, till each wagon weighed three tons, and the wagons were fastened together. |
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| By 1880, Germany had 9,400 locomotives pulling 43,000 passengers and 30,000 tons of freight, and pulled ahead of France. |
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| These huge stones, ten uprights and five lintels, weigh up to 50 tons each. |
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| It is thought that there were originally 98 sarsen standing stones, some weighing in excess of 40 tons. |
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| Outstanding debts were also agreed and the company permitted to export 250 tons of saltpetre. |
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| Drake and his party found that they had captured around 20 tons of silver and gold. |
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| The restrictions of coastal shipping and river transport were obvious, and horses and carts could only carry one or two tons of cargo at a time. |
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| On average there were about 40 coal trains a day, hauling 28 waggons with a weight of 116 tons. |
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| By 1880, there were 13,500 locomotives which each carried 97,800 passengers a year, or 31,500 tons of freight. |
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| Nine days later, two waves of 125 and 170 bombers dropped heavy bombs, including 160 tons of high explosive and 32,000 incendiaries. |
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| In Sunderland on 25 April, Luftflotte 2 sent 60 bombers which dropped 80 tons of high explosive and 9,000 incendiaries. |
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| You enterprised a railroad through the valley, you blasted its rocks away, heaped thousands of tons of shale into its lovely stream. |
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| With a total maximum weight of 21 metric tons it would have been launched on the Ariane 5 rocket, which was being developed at that time. |
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| This fuel consumption was a saving from between 23 and 14 long tons a day, compared to other contemporary steamers. |
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| Pakistan has an installed capacity of 44,768,250 metric tons of cement and 42,636,428 metric tons of clinker. |
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| In total, 70,000 tons of stone, 3,000 tons of timber and 450 tons of lead were used in the construction of the cathedral. |
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| This saved 17 tons of displacement, but later subjected the boat to extreme electrolysis after the Cup races. |
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| The centre anchor alone weighed 12 tons and was pulled through Netherton on its journey to the ship by 20 Shire horses. |
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| Every ship over 300 tons carries a transponder supplying both information about the ship itself and its movements. |
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| One of the largest ships of the time, the Great Harry displaced over 1,500 tons. |
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| The royal sarcophagus at Frogmore was probably the pinnacle of its work, and at 30 tons one of the largest. |
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| The Typhoons were the largest submarines ever built at 48,000 tons submerged. |
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| By 1880, Germany had 9,400 locomotives pulling 43,000 passengers and 30,000 tons of freight, and forged ahead of France. |
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| German planners estimated that unrestricted submarine warfare would cost Britain a monthly shipping loss of 600,000 tons. |
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| By 21 May 2013, the Voyager fleet had carried over 50,000 passengers and carried over 3,000 tons of cargo. |
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| Britain required more than a million tons of imported material per week in order to be able to survive and fight. |
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| The Prime Minister has told us that 50 million tons of British shipping are at stake in his dispute with President Nasser. |
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| By the 1830s, hundreds of tons of coal were being transported by barge to ports in Cardiff and Newport. |
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| The ship delivered more than 200,000 tons of cargo to the island each year. |
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| I played here for ten weeks with the LSO and LPO for the benefit of the musicians, and then went back on a Fyffe banana boat of 5,000 tons. |
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| By 2005, the maximum weight of the trains using the line had already been increased from 4,000 to 6,300 tons. |
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| By 1700, Philadelphia was exporting 350,000 bushels of wheat and 18,000 tons of flour annually. |
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| This was based on oil extracted from shale, and by 1870 over 3 million tons of shale were being mined each year in the area around Livingston. |
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| Big Pit alone employed some 1,300 men digging a quarter of a million tons of coal a year. |
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| Large amounts of coal were needed to supply the local ironworks, as it took 3 tons of coal to produce a ton of iron. |
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| Thirty tons of used ore is dumped as waste for producing one troy ounce of gold. |
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| At its peak in 1845, the works operated 18 blast furnaces, employed 7,300 people and produced 88,400 tons of iron each year. |
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| By 1819, the ironworks had grown to six blast furnaces, producing 23,000 tons of iron. |
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| In 1974, Milford could boast an oil trade of 58,554,000 tons, which was three times the combined trade of all the other ports of Wales. |
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| One typical Grecian kiln engorged one thousand muleloads of juniper wood in a single burn. Fifty such kilns would devour six thousand metric tons of trees and brush annually. |
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| About 400 million metric tons of hazardous wastes are generated each year. |
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| The total catch in 1976 was probably about 3.5 million tons and was mainly composed of pelagic species such as sardines, mackerels and various carangids. |
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| Production of pig iron in the region grew from 39,600 tons in 1796 to 666,000 tons in 1852, and the iron was used to build railways, factories and engines around the world. |
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| A PUNT FOR SALE, thirty-four feet long, twelve feet broad, and three feet ten inches deep, chunamed, sheathed, and coppered, carries about fifteen tons. |
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| The peak of production was more than 250,000 tons of coal per year. |
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| The parcel deck was reinforced by 5,500 tons of structural steelwork. |
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| By its height in 1913, Wales was producing almost 61 million tons of coal. |
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| The United States alone produces about 250 million metric tons. |
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| Large batch ice makers can produce up to 75 tons of ice per day. |
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| At its peak, Milford was landing over 40,000 tons of fish a year. |
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| Four days later 230 tons was dropped including 60,000 incendiaries. |
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| Costs rose to 21 million marks each, as had size to 11,500 tons. |
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| On average, about 300,000 metric tons of cod were landed annually until the 1960s, when advances in technology enabled factory trawlers to take larger catches. |
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| Only five were sunk while evacuating Dunkirk, despite large periods of German air superiority, thousands of sorties flown, and hundreds of tons of bombs dropped. |
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| This became increasingly apparent in 1967, when the tanker Torrey Canyon spilled 120,000 tons of crude oil when it ran aground entering the English Channel. |
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| Five to six hundred tons of powder was stored in the Tower of London. |
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| Ludwig broke the record of 100,000 long tons of heavy displacement. |
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| By 1953, 738 men were producing 213,000 tons of coal annually. |
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| In the 1970s, the annual catch rose to between 200,000 and 300,000 tons. |
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| Over 1,500 tons of carbon dioxide per year can be eliminated by using a one megawatt turbine instead of one megawatt of energy from a fossil fuel. |
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| A ship named Lundy Island, 3,095 tons, was captured and sunk on 10 January 1917 by the Seeadler, a windjammer under the German navy, but flying the Norwegian flag. |
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| The annual yield from all fisheries worldwide is about 154 million tons, with popular species including herring, cod, anchovy, tuna, flounder, and salmon. |
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| During World War II in the US, 13540 tons of silver were used in electromagnets for enriching uranium, mainly because of the wartime shortage of copper. |
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| The efficiency of Holt's package of boiler pressure, compound engine and hull design gave a ship that could steam at 10 knots on 20 long tons of coal a day. |
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| The oceans may contain as much as one hundred million tons of plastic. |
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| In fact, in a harvest of two and a half tons of oysters, only three to four oysters produce what commercial buyers consider to be absolute perfect pearls. |
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| The Port of Amsterdam is the fourth largest port in Europe, the 38th largest port in the world and the second largest port in the Netherlands by metric tons of cargo. |
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| In 1880 the make of pig iron in all countries was 18,300,000 tons. |
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| There were tons of malodorous garbage bags outside her house. |
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| The shell was removed and replaced by a forest planted in tons of dirt hauled in especially for the event, and a trestle was constructed from the hills to the stage. |
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| Despite the existence of these industries, the scale of production was small, and in 1740 the total output of iron from Glamorgan was reported at 400 tons per year. |
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| Ten years later, for these exchanges, Jean Fleury counted 225 to 230 both French and foreign, from 30 to 800 tons, ships each carrying 6 to 18 crew. |
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| By then, coal exports from the South Wales Coalfield via Cardiff totalled nearly 9 million tons per annum, much of it exported in the holds of locally owned tramp steamers. |
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