Example sentences of "a few kilometres [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 In origin the sculpture was dependent on the availability of excellent marble , both white and blue-grey , along the slopes of the Salbakos range ( modern Baba Dag ) , barely a few kilometres to the east of the city .
2 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 .
3 We were based at Nigel 's chalet on the edge of Servoz , a small , sunny village just a few kilometres down the road from Chamonix , conveniently placed for visiting other resorts covered by the Mont Blanc skipass , including Les Contamines , Argentiere , Le Tour , Les Houches and Megeve .
4 KabelvÄg campsite is a few kilometres beyond the village , on the flanks of a charming little beach and remarkably civilized .
5 I knew the paths well and it was a journey of a few kilometres as the crow flies or , as they say in Italy , a volo d'uccello .
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 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 .
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