Examples of use of grt
1. The revision to Annex IV applies to new and existing ships of 400 grt and above and all ships certified to carry more than 15 persons that are engaged in international voyages.
2. Silja Line is to send its 33,000 GRT car/passenger ferry GTS Finnjet to the Gulf Coast of the United States to serve as emergency accommodation for a medical school in the region struck by Hurricane Katrina at the end of last month.
3. "Home, & someone to take care of house" he wrote in quill pen "Charms of music & female chit–chat – These things good for one‘s health." Then he paused, and added, darkly: "But terrible loss of time." The doubt didn‘t delay him long however, as he went on to answer his own question: "My God," he wrote, "it is intolerable to spend one‘s whole life, like a neuter bee, working, working, working, & nothing after all – No, no, won‘t do." "Imagine living all one‘s day solitarily in smoky dirty London house," he went on, before adding, sweetly, "Only picture to yourself a nice soft wife on a sofa with good fire, & books & music perhaps." Then he added, with a shudder: "Compare this vision with the dingy reality of Grt.