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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.

Red squirrels cache the pinecones (saving the bears a ton of work).

So I went in, met Michael Bay, and did the video, and it won an MTV Video Music Award and got me a ton of work.

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.

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