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Simple sentences
This box weighs a ton. What's inside?
I have a ton of work to do today.
There's a ton of dust on top of the fan blades.
The Barringer Meteorite Crater near Winslow, Arizona is believed to have been formed about 49,000 years ago by the impact of a 300,000 ton meteorite.
It looks like a ton of people know her.
I'm a vegetarian who eats a ton of meat.
He has read a ton of books.
I have a ton of things to do.
This grizzly bear weighs half a ton.
Movie subtitles
Okay, so, I've been through the therapy wringer, I've rehashed my childhood a ton.
Quel est ton nom? - Paul. - Paul.
Ar-is-ton.
Don't touch that trip line. You'll have a two-ton tree down on your back.
I have a ton of laundry for you to do.
They came in all shapes and sizes, from little, crawling horrors about the size of a chicken to hundred-ton nightmares.
You know what that is. One ton of peaches, picked and carried for a dollar.
Not if you tie a ton of cement around my neck and throw me into the East River like you did to all the others.
It sweats and gathers ice by the ton.
There's a ton of pepper in it.
WITH 2-TON BOMBS.
I bet this thing weighs a ton.
Hey, Mr. Bon Ton!
Twenty ton of ore slipping and sliding in that shale on a narrow road. with only a prayer between you and a drop of 5,000 feet?
Is there any brand that would stop you from talking? I'll order a ton of it.
Like a ton of bricks?
The wind was with us all the way. Saved a ton of coal and made ourselves some money.
One ton of peaches, picked and carried for a dollar.
The Kawanishi 96 can carry about a half a ton of bombs as well as scout.
Startin' next week, we get six cents more a ton. Six cents?
All the mistakes you've made have piled up and someday they're gonna come down on you like a ton of slag.
Cash told you once that all the mistakes you had made. were going to pile up and someday fall on you like a ton of slag.
And there were others who found they could run a drill press. drive a 30-ton tank or run a stamping machine as well as any man.
That thing must weight a ton.
Tanks and munitions that you prayed would hold against the magnificent 50-ton German land monsters which will soon be crashing through your very houses.
It's a self-propelled, pilotless bomb. with a warhead said to contain one ton of explosives.
I've rehashed my childhood a ton.
It's his idea now. He fell like a ton of bricks.
She's running about 500 or 600 to a ton.
A half a ton of nitro behind him, a storm around him, no radio and almost out of gas, so you know he's doing fine.
That Colonel, is a ton of law.
Any fighting and I'll come down like a ton of bricks on you both.
If you're not in a hurry, because I've a ton of work. See?
I wouldn't be afraid of a Russian general with a ton of caviar.
About 20 ounces to the ton.
What are you looking for? I expect Two-Ton Salami to come out here charging after me at any minute.
News and current affairs
Then a solution to this nasty conundrum hit Darwin like a ton of bricks.
The Koizumi government plans to add two new 13,500-ton warships, both capable of carrying helicopters and of being converted to take jump jets to strike enemy territory.
Indeed, the price of permits fell below three euros a ton in April 2013, rendering the emissions-trading market almost irrelevant.
Only Europe has tried to make a serious shift away from carbon emissions, creating a system that requires each industrial emitter to obtain a permit for each ton of CO2 emissions.
For example, say that the EU decides to put up a diamond-studded wind turbine at the Berlaymont headquarters, which will save one ton of CO2 each year.
He waited for Saakashvili to go a step too far, and then came down on him and his poor country like a ton of bricks.
Secara global, 24 juta ton tanah subur hilang setiap tahunnya, sebagian diakibatkan oleh pertumbuhan perkotaan dan infrastruktur.
Crop yields are below one ton of cereal per hectare of farmland - far less than half of what is readily achievable if farmers are helped to gain access to fertilizers, improved seeds, and basic infrastructure.
Surely, such a tax will hit wealthy individuals and financial firms far more than anyone else, and, besides, it will raise a ton of revenue.
African farmers produce roughly one ton of grain per hectare, compared with more than four tons per hectare in China, where farmers use fertilizers heavily.
What is important is that we recognize the existence of gigantic parts of the earth's climate system - such as West Antarctica's three-quadrillion-ton ice sheet - that can be tipped when a fractional temperature rise occurs in key locations.
Under traditional agricultural conditions, the yields of grain - rice, wheat, maize, sorghum, or millet - are usually around one ton per hectare, for one planting season per year.
After it bought the 67,500-ton, Soviet-era Varyag carrier - still little more than a hull when the Soviet Union collapsed - China repeatedly denied that it had any intention to refit it for naval deployment.
Joyce Tischler, of the Animal Legal Defense Fund, described keeping a six-ton orca in Sea World's tanks as akin to keeping a human in a bathtub for his entire life.
By contrast, West African rice farmers harvest only 1.5 tons per hectare of traditional upland rice annually, while other cereals yield no more than one ton - a figure comparable to yields in medieval Europe.
Moreover, compared to natural gas and crude oil, coal is much cheaper per ton of CO2 released.
But then the financial system crumbled growth rates fell like a ton of bricks.
After all, it requires a lot less energy to create a software program than it does to produce a ton of steel.
Indeed, the world's population throws away nearly 10 ounces of gold and five ounces of platinum for every ton of cell phones that are discarded in landfills or incinerated.
At its inception, no one could have predicted that within two decades, electronic products would become a 50-million-ton global problem looking for local solutions.