ton of grain

collocation in English

meaningsoftonandgrain

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ton
noun[C]
uk
/tʌn/us
/tʌn/
a unit of weight equal to ...
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grain
noun
uk
/ɡreɪn/us
/ɡreɪn/
a seed or seeds from a plant, especially a plant like a grass such as rice ...
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(Definition oftonandgrainfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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A chalder of grain means about atonofgrain, and its value is fixed by the sheriff for the year.
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Some recent bargains showed that people were prepared to give atonofgrainfor four yards of cloth.
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To unload atonofgrainin a small wharf will cost 17p.
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It is much more difficult to decide to spend on the air transport of onetonofgraina sum which might buy five, 10 or even 20 further tons.
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Over 2,000 tons of grain and animal feeding-stuffs out of a total of 5,822 tons have recently been cleared from various buildings on the site.
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That is equivalent to about 4 million tons of grain which, at to-day's import prices, is worth about £100 million a year.
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Last year, they imported 45 million tons of grain.
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This provides for the delivery of 200,000 tons of grain consisting of 150,000 tons of barley, 30,000 tons of oats and 20,000 tons of maize.
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To bring that million tons of grain to these shores you would want 350 ships of a carrying capacity of 5,000 tons dead-weight each.
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Is our food bill to be increased by £50 million in relation to the 10 million tons of grain to be imported?
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The harvest will produce 1.5 million tons of grain this year.
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There are 54 aerodromes in this country holding 190,000 tons of grain.
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The enemy has had to send in hundreds of thousand tons of grain from his own stocks.
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If we add to that 4,500,000 tons for seed, we have a total requirement of 55,000,000 tons of grain a year.
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Last year we accomplished a good deal, and this year we have increased the production by hundreds of thousands of tons of grain.
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Thousands of tons of grain are still in the barns, and far too many tons are deteriorating.
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