ton

Preposition: of

• coal: The pit yielded 12 tons of water to every ton of coal drawn.
• ore: At the start of the war, Germany imported about 10 million tons of iron ore from Sweden.
• plutonium: Russia has over a thousand metric tons of highly enriched uranium, plus 150 metric tons of plutonium.
• rubble: The site had been leveled with all the demolition rubble plus several tons of rubble found elsewhere on the site.
• explosive: They dropped 3,000 tons of explosives on the city.
• brick: The nuns would be down on them like a ton of bricks.

Converse of object

• weigh: The trunk of the General Sherman tree weighs almost 1400 tons.
• displace: The Ship displaces 4,500 tons, has a length of 133 meters.
• exceed: China's annual burning of 960 million tons easily exceeds the 560 million tons used in the United States.

Adjective modifier

• metric: In July, Taiwan donated 40 metric tons of rice to the people of Tanzania.
• gross: Grace Line built four sisters in 1918, all 360 feet long and around 4800 gross tons.
• m.: Global aid shipments exceeded 10 m. tons in most years under these two Conventions.

Modifies a noun

• burthen: The pier, having been constructed in 1750, vessels of 150 tons burthen may ride here in safety.
• steamship: This 1411 ton steamship was wrecked on the 16th April 1874 on her maiden voyage.
• crane: The first set of sidings were sandwiched in-between the level crossing and platform, complete with a five ton crane.
• truck: No amount of psychological or psychic manipulation can undo the over tightened wheel nuts on a 3.5 ton truck!
• lorry: We carry our own custom built sound system in a 7.5 ton lorry, which consist of nearly 20,000 watts of power.
• barge: He proposed a depth of 3 foot for 20 ton barges which would pay a charge of 3 pence a lock.

Preposition: per

• hectare: The average annual wheat yield of these fields is five metric tons per hectare or higher.
• acre: FACT - Charles Darwin reported that each year earthworms brought more than 10 tons per acre of castings to the surface of a field.