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COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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estimated
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Implementing the directive across the 12 member states would save an estimated 26 million tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions a year.
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Furniture makers already use an estimated 35,000 tonnes of waste wood to fire boilers for space and water heating.
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Only 100,000 tonnes of an estimated 500,000 tonnes of food aid required throughout the country had been distributed by early July.
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buy
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They could buy a further 41,000 tonnes .
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Sucden and Phibro contracted this year to buy 500,000 tonnes of cocoa from the Ivory Coast, the world's biggest producer.
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Try buying a tonne of ethanoic acid.
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But in the same period of 1990 it bought only 2m tonnes .
carry
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It flies eight times a day from Gondar, carrying 1.8 tonnes of grain every trip.
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The biggest are more than 1000 gross tonnes and can carry more than 1200 tonnes of tuna.
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The aircraft carries nearly two tonnes of radars and cameras.
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But it pulled out across the path of the Volvo truck, carrying nine tonnes of road stone.
compare
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Production of sugar in 1990 was estimated at 18,000 tonnes , compared with 24,700 tonnes in 1989.
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Oilseed production is likely to be about 12.8m tonnes , compared with 12.4m tonnes last year.
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This compares to some 100,000 tonnes in the mid-1970s sold to a smaller Community.
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Only 780,000 tonnes of cod are ready to spawn this year, compared with 1.1 million tonnes in 1991.
estimate
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Production of sugar in 1990 was estimated at 18,000 tonnes , compared with 24,700 tonnes in 1989.
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The World Food Programme estimates that 7,000 tonnes of food is necessary to stabilise the situation.
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Global anthropogenic emission of oxides of nitrogen for 1980 were estimated at 75 million tonnes .
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Total emissions are estimated at 2,100 tonnes a year.
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The 1989 food deficit was estimated at 349,109 tonnes of grain, according to a government announcement on Nov. 3, 1989.
export
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Last year we exported 110,000 tonnes of biscuits worth £182 million, a tenth more than 1990.
fall
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Last year solid waste totalled 227,000 tonnes but this is forecast to fall to 206,000 tonnes this year.
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Annual output from open-cast mines is expected to fall by four million tonnes to 12 million by 1997-98.
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Halon imports fell from 1,250 tonnes in 1986 to 280 tonnes.
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Catches have fallen from 36,000 tonnes in 1988 to 28,000 tonnes in 1992 and the number of fish is down by two-thirds.
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The contracts specify both prices and volume - 70 million tonnes this year, falling to 65 million tonnes next year.
handle
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Mr Risbridger said they planned to invest and upgrade dock facilities by developing riverside berths capable of handling 8,000 tonnes .
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The line is expected to handle around 2 million tonnes of freight each year.
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In 1990 alone, it handled 32,000 tonnes of freight, including a variety of perishable products.
produce
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It should produce 5000 tonnes of the metal per year.
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Five working sites currently produce less than 0.1m tonnes per year.
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Miraculously, it still produces thousands of tonnes of lead.
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Domestic refuse can be burned to produce heat and electricity - we produce 25 million tonnes per year.
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This is just across the road from Incline Top and should produce 650,000 tonnes of coal.
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There are currently 53 collieries in operation, which are expected to produce 68 million tonnes this financial year.
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Courtaulds España produces 62,000 tonnes of acrylic fibre a year.
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The sugar harvest for 1990 produced a record 100,297 tonnes .
reach
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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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The 1990 sugar crop was again depressed, reaching only 69,300 tonnes .
send
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Now scientists at the Harwell Laboratory in Oxfordshire are sending three tonnes of protective clothing to Chernobyl to help the clean-up operation.
total
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Last year solid waste totalled 227,000 tonnes but this is forecast to fall to 206,000 tonnes this year.
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In 1990 output at Bom Futuro is likely to have totalled only 21,000 tonnes .
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It is estimated that world cereal production, which totalled billion tonnes in 1990, will top 3.25 billion tonnes by 2060.
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The crudest fragments, totalling around 180,000 tonnes , have been used in widening the Berlin autobahn.
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Recorded emissions of sulphur dioxide were 2.67 million tonnes in 1992, while nitrous oxides totalled 701,645 tonnes.
weigh
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Just the tongue from such a mouth can weigh up to 4.22 tonnes .
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The new armour is heavy, and a Challenger weighs a massive 60 tonnes .
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Trains up to 800m long weighing 1600 tonnes have already been run.
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The new car body weighed 9.55 tonnes , and the unladen weight of the complete car proved to be 17.29 tonnes.
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The number of lorries weighing over 10 tonnes unladen shot up by 230 percent.
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Drivers with lorries weighing above 7.5 tonnes face a five mile detour around the bridge.
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In all, the Buckau weighed only 20 tonnes more after her conversion.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Following completion of the extension to Rodon polis, the railway expects move 10 to 12 million tonnes of grain and soya.
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Global anthropogenic sulphur dioxide emission reached 75-100 million tonnes a year in 1980.
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In any one year the Soviet Union could choose to substitute up to 750,000 tonnes of any one commodity for another.
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It recommends halving opencast within five years and subsidising deep mines by over £5 per tonne to produce the coal instead of us!
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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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Right:Two rams from an old Volvo dumper give 10 tonnes of lift at link ends.
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The fish farming industry has grown from a few hundred tonnes of fish in 1980 to 33,000 tonnes perannum in 1990.
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The number of lorries weighing over 10 tonnes unladen shot up by 230 percent.