Example sentences of "[noun sg] a few kilometre " in BNC.

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1 In his English Botany ( 1806 ) James Sowerby mentions them as in their millions on the coast a few kilometres off Liverpool .
2 Ferrying American aircraft to Russia had kept him far away from his own village a few kilometres outside Moscow .
3 That 's a small farming village a few kilometres out of Bad Schwarzendorn .
4 In northern Scandinavia there is only a narrow band a few kilometres wide along the northeastern coast of Kola Peninsula .
5 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 .
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