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It looks like we’re on track to put about 10,000 miles a year on this truck, which adds up to approximately six metric tons of carbon emissions, according to the calculator at Carbon Footprint.

“You are applying Western metrics to someone who is not using that metric against you,” referring to ISIS, Bolger said.

Take the chief metric of the war in Vietnam—body counts, which ultimately did not answer whether the strategy was working.

But there's a ton of value for me in my background and my history, and losing it would be a shame.

Some of the things that Jay lied about to the cops actually make a ton of sense.

For those in the resource world, every ton of junk that goes into a landfill represents wasted energy.

The price of salt at one period of the long Peninsular war rose to £30 per ton, being retailed in Birmingham at 4l.

If you think the fly-wheel is not sufficiently heavy for his engine, add half a ton more to the ring.

At Thetford the cost may be put at from $20 to $25 per ton, the latter probably being nearer the average.

Bergin dug a big hole behind that ole vacant shack of hisn, and buried about a ton of tin cans.

A ton of silk goods is worth from ten to fifteen thousand dollars.