tons of concrete
collocation in Englishmeaningsoftonandconcrete
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ton
noun[C]
uk/tʌn/us/tʌn/
a unit of weight equal to ...
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concrete
noun[U]
uk/ˈkɒŋ.kriːt/us/ˈkɑːn.kriːt/
a very hard building material made by mixing together cement, sand, small stones, ...
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(Definition oftonandconcretefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Then there is the question of the removal of these thousands of tons of concrete.
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You would need thousands of tons of steel and thousands of tons of concrete.
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Since the war started, the industry has delivered something like 12,500,000 tons of cement and that has made something like 80,000,000 tons of concrete.
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During its construction 5,900 tons of steel were used and 7,500 tons of concrete.
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It stands 38 feet tall and is made of 228 tons of concrete.
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The original dam wall contains 100,000 tons of concrete, over one million tons of earth and 100,000 tons of clay for the core.
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Around 500 tons of concrete, with the steelwork and planking that should have supported it, dropped 40 ft into the river.
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Its production capacity was 1,000 tons of concrete per day.
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Buckets running on these cables carried up to six tons of concrete at a time into the locks.
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The quantities required were very substantial indeed; 200,000 tons of concrete and 20,000 tons of steel would be required to build the facility.
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Concrete was poured into columns by crane-lifted buckets, each supporting eight tons of concrete.
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The new bridge has a single arch made of 1,100 tons of steel filled with 800 tons of concrete.
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The tower leans at an angle of 15 degrees and held in place by 180 tons of concrete.
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A total of 1100 tons of concrete was used during building, whilst the tower itself weighs 140 tons.
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During the construction of the bridge, 140,000 tons of concrete, 4,600 tons of mild steel and 8,150 tons of structural steel was used.
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It is expected to consume 10 million metric tons of concrete, the government has pledged to use only domestically produced concrete.
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It took three years and more than 38 miles of rebar, 5,000 tons of structural steel, and 10,000 tons of concrete to build the mountain.
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Two massive piers, containing over 70,000 tons of concrete, were sunk into the river bed to support the construction.
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