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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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All the costs were met by the coal companies, who then paid royalties to the landowners on the tonnage produced.
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At its peak, the scheme involved some 35 vessels, of a total tonnage probably approaching 10 million.
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Business generally increased until the First World War when tonnages dropped away.
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Early tonnages of product are made under very tight supervision for data-gathering so that optimal requirements are quickly developed.
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Grangemouth was also developing rapidly although it was the early part of the present century before substantial tonnages were handled.
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Large tonnages of CO2 are also produced.
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Net tonnage of goods broke the four million tonne mark reaching 4,001,353 tonnes - a rise of over three percent.
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This unsportsmanlike style of hunting became lucrative as export tonnages increased.