Example sentences of "few kilometre " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kabelvåg campsite is a few kilometres beyond the village , on the flanks of a charming little beach and remarkably civilized . |
| 2 | Magharba reinforcements from Bishr turned up and camped in a clump of trees a few kilometres west of town . |
| 3 | I was carved up by a let-me-through Porsche , with a chap at the wheel chatting into his Deutsche Telekom mobile phone , and then caught up with the car again a few kilometres further on , where it had slithered on the wet cobbles and collided with an antique tram . |
| 4 | But the sun 's rays reflected wickedly off the intense blue waters of the lake , so it was from the small window of the launch that I — a different creature by far — watched the pyramid shape of Taquile drift by , and the few kilometres of Amantani come into view . |
| 5 | These include Buckle Island , just off the Antarctic coast , and Mts Erebus and Terror , only a few kilometres from Scott 's original base camp , from which he set out on his last heroic journey . |
| 6 | To escape , the heat has to travel up through quite large thicknesses of continental crust , and a large proportion does not get very far ; instead , it comes to rest and solidifies a few kilometres below the surface , forming enormous masses of igneous rock which have been forced or intruded into the crust and are known as batholiths ( Greek origin , meaning something like deep stones ) . |
| 7 | Ferrying American aircraft to Russia had kept him far away from his own village a few kilometres outside Moscow . |
| 8 | The latter was the simple story of two villages a few kilometres apart , one of which was well-known for its beautiful cabbages while the other was famous for its grapes and wine . |
| 9 | Hydrocarbon exploration in overthrust belts is encouraged by these results because the highly disturbed and sometimes metamorphosed rocks of the near-surface have been shown to overlie extensive areas of flat-lying and relatively undisturbed strata , separated by a fundamental detachment zone which is commonly at a depth of only a few kilometres . |
| 10 | The most convincing leys are short — usually only a few kilometres in length and probably never more than 30 km long . |
| 11 | If the sale had gone ahead , Rio Tinto would have developed Wheal Concord , refining its ore in the modern processing plant at Wheal Jane a few kilometres away . |
| 12 | In his English Botany ( 1806 ) James Sowerby mentions them as in their millions on the coast a few kilometres off Liverpool . |
| 13 | The mine , owned by Carnon Consolidated , a subsidiary of Rio Tinto-Zinc , is a few kilometres south west of Truro near the tiny village of Baldhu . |
| 14 | In the hamlet of Bailly , a few kilometres from Chablis but outside that appellation , caves that were quarried to provide stone to build the Panthéon in Paris now make impeccable cellars for maturing sparkling wine . |
| 15 | The most important river in the region is the Marne which starts life in dramatic surroundings a few kilometres south of Langres , not far from the magnificent Château le Pailly . |
| 16 | The delightfully named village of Chigny-les-Roses is situated south of Reims , on the northern slopes of the Montagne , a few kilometres west of the grand cru villages of Mailly-Champagne and Verzenay . |
| 17 | We made another such excursion on to Mount Párnes , at its best season — it was still possible ( indeed it is still possible today , though more difficult ) to leave Athens and the world behind after a very few kilometres . |
| 18 | The entire coastal fringe from Chilaw south to a few kilometres into Hambantota district was the most densely populated part of the island . |
| 19 | Some stolen cattle were transported from the Northern Band to supply the beef market at Kandy ; the Moors of Akurana , a few kilometres north of Kandy , were said to be involved in this trade . |
| 20 | Instead it collapses in on itself catastrophically to produce an object a few kilometres across , known as either a neutron star or a pulsar ; often this is accompanied by a stupendous explosion , a supernova . |
| 21 | A few kilometres inland in the foothills of the Ronda mountains , nestling below the spectacular white village of Gaucin you will find — FINCA LAS LIMAS . |
| 22 | It appeared to have a road running to within a few kilometres . |
| 23 | Today only Russia exercises that right and operates a coal mine at Barentsburg , a few kilometres down the fiord from Longyearbyen , the main Norwegian coal-mining area which the Store Norsk Spitzbergen Kulkompani bought from John Longyear . |
| 24 | The concentration of ozone in surface air at Cape Grim can now be explained in terms of the competition between vertical mixing in the lower few kilometres of the atmosphere , near-surface destruction by photochemical reactions , and continuous , slow , dry deposition . |
| 25 | The bipolar outflow model does however raise the question of how molecules can survive in a strong shock in a medium with the extremely high velocity of 1,000km s -1 ( for comparison , the sound velocity in interstellar space is only a few kilometres per second ) . |
| 26 | This ambiguity does not greatly alter our conclusions regarding airburst altitude : once an object has spread to , say , twice its initial radius , its further spreading happens so quickly that an ‘ explosion altitude ’ is defined to within a few kilometres , regardless of whether the explosion is taken to occur then or when the object has spread to 5–10 times its initial radius . |
| 27 | Last June saw the opening of a new museum in Ingolstadt , a few kilometres north of Munich , devoted to concrete art the art of geometric form and pure colour espoused in the 1930s by artists such as Arp , Kupka , Vantongerloo and van Doesburg . |
| 28 | The great centre of the rich Pays d'Auge , also cider and Calvados country , is Vimoutiers , only a few kilometres from the cheese villages of both Camembert and Livarot . |
| 29 | The individual polja can be over 65 km ( 40 miles ) long , but are seldom more than a few kilometres across , their long axes conforming to the north-west to south-east direction of the Dinaric trend lines . |
| 30 | Visitors to the resorts on the Dalmatian coast do not always realise the poverty and backwardness which lie over the mountains only a few kilometres away from the bright lights of Split , Zadar and Šibenik . |