→short ton(Definition ofnet tonfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary? Cambridge University Press)
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net tonIn 1960 it reported 243 millionnetton-miles of revenue freight.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In 1970 it reported 359 millionnetton-miles of revenue freight and zero passengers on 333 miles of road operated (138 miles owned).FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.There has been an increase in train loading and innettonmiles per engine hour.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0They are now 6.25 francs ($1.206) pernettonfor loaded vessels.FromProject GutenbergHe estimated that by this plan we should build up fairly quickly an average of 15,000netton-miles per engine hour.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0In 1947, thenetton-miles per engine hour had been raised from 461 in 1938 to 516.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0In 1938, that figure was 461netton-miles per engine hour.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0For the corresponding period this year it was 7,096,761,000nettonmiles, which is an increase of 141,931,000.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0Thenettonmiles for those first 36 weeks in 1938 were 11,190,000.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0In the corresponding period of this year which, remember, takes in that dreadful patch at the beginning of the year, thenettonmiles were 13,642,000.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.#https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/net-ton##
