Tonnes

We'd like to order 18 tonnes of olive oil.

The fierce pounding of the waves during the storm washed tonnes of shoreline into the ocean.

The conveyor belt at the Canadian coal port can fill a Japanese or Chinese ship at the rate of four thousand tonnes of coal per hour.

It shows tonnes per year of CO₂.

From a gold mine in Baia Mare, Romania, the Tisza River was contaminated with a release of 180 times the deadly dose of cyanide. It is estimated that 1,700 tonnes of fish were killed.

This bridge can bear only ten tonnes.

The weight-bearing capacity of this bridge is ten tonnes only.

This bridge has a weight-bearing capacity of just ten tonnes.

The avalanche brought tonnes of snow down to the foot of the mountain.

The ship has a carrying capacity of a thousand tonnes.