Example sentences of "[adv] a [adj] kilometres " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The most convincing leys are short — usually only a few kilometres in length and probably never more than 30 km long . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | However , the altitude range is only a few kilometres , and therefore with a few exceptions the major condensate on view may be ammonia in all regions . |
| 8 | ‘ Monpazier — one of the most beautiful — is only a few kilometres away . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Base surges spread out radially in all directions from the base of the rising ash column , rolling down the volcano at speeds of nearly a hundred kilometres per hour and covering an area of more than 230 square kilometres . |
| 11 | Alas , Barents got no further than Novaya Zemlja , a large island in the Russian Arctic , about a thousand kilometres east of Svalbard . |
| 12 | Cousin Island also has a small population of giant tortoises , including ‘ George ’ said to be 150 years old and one of the survivors of the endemic subspecies , the others having been introduced from the island of Aldabra which lies about a thousand kilometres away off the north of Madagascar . |
| 13 | The only problem of that nature that we have to worry about is an electrical storm about a thousand kilometres wide . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ About a hundred kilometres . |
| 15 | It was just about a hundred kilometres to Bad Schwarzendorn , with Paderborn — another town with a British garrison — shortly before it . |
| 16 | In 1557 the Tiber changed its course and Ostia Antica ( as it is termed to differentiate it from the modern Lido town ) is now a few kilometres inland and not on the riverside any more . |
| 17 | ‘ Some friends of mine live a few kilometres from here . |
| 18 | Madrid and the road to Valencia remained in Republican hands , but the Nationalists had pushed the front line forward a few kilometres and were dangerously close to the Madrid-Valencia road . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |