noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
came down on...like a ton of bricks (= very severely )
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I made the mistake of answering back, and she came down on me like a ton of bricks .
metric ton
weighed a ton (= was very heavy )
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The box was full of books and weighed a ton .
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
metric
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Measured on the carbon dioxide scale, it emitted 2.109 metric tons percapita in 1986 from fossil fuels and cement production.
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A metric ton is equal to 2, 205 pounds.
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Britain in the same year emitted 2.938 metric tons percapita from the same resources; the United States 5.005.
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Refiners and users had expected a 200, 000 to 300, 000 metric ton increase, analysts and industry officials said.
■ VERB
carry
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But then he wasn't carrying tons of lead on a keel that had to be dragged through the water.
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From Nibthwaite to Ulverston it was carried for 4/6 per ton .
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The ship was carrying 80,000 tons of oil when it hit a rock off Corunna last Thursday.
hit
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She felt like crying as dejection hit her like a ton of bricks.
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As I was doing the project management part of my presentation today it hit me like a ton of bricks.
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He had the right club. Hit it a ton .
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Miracle recovery, hit me like a ton of bricks and then it was over in nothing flat, blah blah blah.
produce
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Every acre of sunflowers produces about half a ton of oil which will be turned into low fat margarine.
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Similarly, in 1979-80, it used to take 13.2 hours for a man to produce a ton of steel.
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Burning of the Amazon forest produces nearly 720 million tons of carbon dioxide annually.
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The district produces tons of the pâté.
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Britain now produces nearly 26 million tons per year of domestic garbage which must be disposed of somewhere, somehow.
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When I started it was about two hundred people per ton and now we produce five tons an hour with three people.
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An excavation of a Roman villa, for example, can produce several tons of small fragments of pottery, glass and tiles.
sell
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The contract was an agreement to sell 275 tons of barley to be grown by the seller on his farm.
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They sold an amazing 43,000 tons of frozen chips last year, a 25 percent increase on the previous year.
use
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This 7,224-ton daughter of the industrial revolution is repainted every seven years, using 40 tons of paint.
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We use it in a ton of things.
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They use 600,000 tons of potatoes each year a tenth of the total crop and 59,000 tons of white fish.
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Did you know that our employees use over a ton of paper a year?
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First larger vehicles were used so the tons per load figure was higher.
weigh
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It was an extraordinary 32 metres long, weighing possibly up to 100 tons .
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Most of the sculptures there weigh about half a ton .
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Each truck has to carry 26 of them, together weighing over a ton .
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The thing weighed a black ton .
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It looked as though it weighed a ton and seemed to quiver every so often.
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Some one mentioned to me that 18 to 24 inches of snow on a driveway 10 by 40 feet weighs a ton .
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Each caisson weighed 240 tons with water in it, and could carry one barge or two narrow boats.
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It is 10' in diameter and weighs some 40 tons .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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About a million tons of lava are pouring every day from the fissure which opened on the Sicilian volcano in December.
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Doesn't he care that nuclear energy has so far saved the world from burning five hundred million tons of coal?
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From the ton of stuff littering the area, this was clearly a campsite.
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He was welding on top of a 900 ton oil storage tank which exploded, hurling him 120 feet into a wall.
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She would get some Dublin Bay prawns and tons of garlic, if he could bring some great wine or other?
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The payload of the military 109 is one ton , the civilian 109 is ¾ ton.
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The station also supplied the nearby brickworks with its coal, 23,000 tons in 1898, chiefly from Yorkshire.
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Two vats were in use, with maximum production in the region of three tons per week.