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This has increased since then to 771,000 metric tons in 2007.

In 1996, the level rose to 59.3 million metric tons.

About half the 800,000 metric tons of the food needed has been promised.

Total world demand last year was 3,480 metric tons, up 12 percent.

During the last two decades, this number was only 145 million metric tons per year.

It is expected to handle 15 million metric tons by 2004.

The total weight of the gun was 1,000 metric tons.

"And how many metric tons of apparatus have you got in the hold?"

But it cannot land weighing more than 200 metric tons, he said.

They can put 100 metric tons in low earth orbit.

China had been expected to buy 300,000 metric tons of sugar.

Other commentators, however, put the figure at 0.950 billion metric tons.

Worldwide production was about one million metric tons in 1985.

Its weight has been estimated to be 85.21 metric tons.

Out of this, 8000 metric tons have been destroyed in the past few years.

Only a small amount, estimated to be about 800 metric tons per year, is available.

The weight of one module is about 10 metric tons.

Under the American plan, 1.5 million metric tons of wheat would be provided free.

Last year's production of 90.8 million metric tons will probably be off about 2 to 5 percent for the year, analysts said.

The industry was predicted to reach 2.6 million metric tons per year by 2015.

In the same year, the total fishing catch was 505.8 metric tons.

An estimate for the 1999 world production is 300 to 350 metric tons.

About 7,500 metric tons of rice seeds were also lost.

In the same year production amounted to 30,000 metric tons.

The greatest output came in 1929, at 10.4 million metric tons.