Example sentences of "a kilometre " in BNC.
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| 1 | For four people sharing , Global Villas ( 01-466 4625 ) have a 2-bedroom villa with pool a kilometre from the beach at Carvoeira in Portugal , at £252pp for a week . |
| 2 | Now , FitzSimons 's Fitness for Slobs revolves around three numbers : your weight , your time for swimming a kilometre , and your time for a five-kilometre run . |
| 3 | The Popi is well situated for everything — it 's in the middle of the harbour area of Kos , only a kilometre or so away from the early nightlife and bars and very close to the late night discos . |
| 4 | Geologists have found water deeper than 10 kilometres , but the greatest depth at which water actively circulates is usually about a kilometre . |
| 5 | Having completed the steeplechase , I let the horse canter along for about half a kilometre , then I allow him to walk for nearly a whole kilometre , bearing in mind , you will most likely have to ‘ make up time ’ later on . |
| 6 | In a Vulcanian eruption , the ejected material comes in the form of solid blocks and highly-fragmented ash , and the explosions are often powerful enough to heave blocks weighing many tons clear of the crater while smaller ones may be thrown for a kilometre or more . |
| 7 | A basalt flow can advance over a kilometre of flat ground in a matter of hours ; an andesite may take months . |
| 8 | In other parts of the town , a kilometre or more from the vent , the ash fall was thinner and damage proportionally less . |
| 9 | As they migrate to their breeding sites , from distances of up to a kilometre and a half , many will be squashed by traffic ; sometimes singly , sometimes in pairs with the males already piggybacked on the females , in the characteristic prenuptial position of anurans ( tailless amphibians ) known as amplexus . |
| 10 | Ministers also found in favour of allowing a methane terminal , run by the British Gas corporation less than a kilometre from the refinery site , to stay open . |
| 11 | An observer only a kilometre inside the edge of the path of totality , for example , would see total eclipse lasting for a mere 15 seconds . |
| 12 | spotting a narrow isthmus on the map near Northton we opted for a large portage ; half a kilometre would be a long way but , following our Griminish Point experience , the safer option seemed favourable . |
| 13 | The majority of the vineyards are located to the north and north-west of the village commencing half a kilometre north-west of Ambonnay itself , where the land rises to about 20 metres . |
| 14 | The two parcels of vines belonging to Beaumont-sur-Vesle are located on a small patch of flat ground , west of the road leading out of the village towards Verzenay and , a kilometre further on , adjoining the edge of some of the poorest vineyards of Verzenay . |
| 15 | Since he was not very good at visualizing maps or plans , it was decided that the Comrade should go to the top of the Unirii department store , the tallest building in the area , about a kilometre east of the proposed site of the Civic Centre . |
| 16 | Left A soil gas sample is collected as part of a survey to help delineate a plume of pollution caused by a volatile organic compound that had migrated a kilometre through the Chalk aquifer from the site of the original spillage . |
| 17 | Right Soil-gas surveying detects extensive contamination of the Chalk aquifer up to a kilometre from an industrial site , the source of the contamination . |
| 18 | During a typical summer 's day , a mountain goat may travel around a kilometre in search of food . |
| 19 | The Moebius Strip stands on the southern bank of the Grand Canal about a kilometre along from the Baratha Arcade , between the Church of the Directed Panspermia and a crustacean restaurant . |
| 20 | But think how they marvelled then , the first time they glimpsed the grandiose space architecture of the Eladeldi , or the shining needle , a kilometre long , of the Vespa Omicron . |
| 21 | The chaplain had displayed a holorama of the Column of Glory , that tower of rainbow metal half a kilometre high close by the Emperor 's own throne room , which was embedded with the armour of Imperial Fists who had died there and during the teleport assault on Horus 's Chaos-oozing battle-barge nine thousand years earlier . |
| 22 | A gloomy , whale-ribbed corridor led after half a kilometre to a moist cloacal side-passage aglow with lichen where ventilator gargoyles exhaled dazing smouldery fumes . |
| 23 | Onwards it skidded on its side across sleek vitrodur through corpses and burning husks of vehicles for almost half a kilometre before finally coming to rest … |
| 24 | You can only get to Rudolfo 's by the road we took the other day when they found the car- or else on foot there 's a bit of a patch half a kilometre on from here — and in any case Rudolfo wo n't be down until tomorrow , being Palm Sunday . |
| 25 | Muffled in furs , Franklin D. Hauser left the complex in a snow buggy which drove him to a helipad a kilometre away . |
| 26 | On the bridge the atmosphere was tense ; the sweeping cursor of the radar showed the nearest of the islands , Levenish , to be only a kilometre distant and , although the water was deep enough , there comes a point beyond which no prudent captain will take a liner full of passengers . |
| 27 | At the same time Ruggia was supervising the final stages of the building of his new house on the hillside of Brusc , a small town in the Var region , less than a kilometre away from the Mediterranean . |
| 28 | It was certainly frustrating at times , but even before we were able to watch the chimps , we could learn a great deal from listening to their noisy nut-cracking , often audible up to a kilometre away , and deduce much about their elaborate use of tools . |
| 29 | So loud are these calls that a single insect can be heard half a kilometre away and a chorus of them can set a whole forest ringing and echoing . |
| 30 | Sharks , when the current is in their favour , can smell blood issuing from a body at a distance of nearly half a kilometre . |