Noun
tons
plural of ton
tons pl (plural only)
(colloquial) Lots; large quantities or numbers (of people or things).
I have tons of pens, but none of them work.
Tons of people attended the game.
91% of the operational oil spills were small, resulting in less than 7 tons per spill. Source: Internet
A 250,000-strong army needs 250 tons of supplies daily (5 ships). Source: Internet
A battery of four BM-13 launchers could fire a salvo in 7–10 seconds that delivered 4.35 tons of high explosives over a convert impact zone, Zaloga, p 154. making its power roughly equivalent to that of 72 guns. Source: Internet
About 45,000 tons of soil contaminated with radioactive isotopes was collected and placed into a fenced area covering convert on the north of the island. Source: Internet
About 2% of these were expected to fall back to the ground, almost 90 tons of rounds, which would cause far more damage than the missile. Source: Internet
A Bessemer converter could treat a "heat" (batch of hot metal) of 5 to 30 tons at a time. Source: Internet