Example sentences of "a [adj] kilometre [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The contract comprises a 4.5 kilometre extension of the M74 in Glasgow . |
| 2 | Lille eventually hopes to have a 70 kilometre network . |
| 3 | Magharba reinforcements from Bishr turned up and camped in a clump of trees a few kilometres west of town . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | At the Apollo 17 site an experiment was carried out by the astronauts which gave the seismic wave speeds down to a few kilometres depth in the vicinity of the site . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | This is a 5 kilometre route along the banks of the River Esk . |
| 11 | Alas , Barents got no further than Novaya Zemlja , a large island in the Russian Arctic , about a thousand kilometres east of Svalbard . |
| 12 | The more energetic might consider extending this detour to visit Blackness , a 3 kilometre descent down the B9019 . |
| 13 | A plan to occupy a 160 kilometre strip along the border with camps and soldiers was originally envisaged by Brazil 's military dictatorship as part of its " Calha Norte " project . |
| 14 | The 1991 Energy Challenge was run over a 370 kilometre course in New South Wales , and the winners were those who completed the course with the least polluting emissions , calculated on the basis of their performance against a " greenhouse gas index " , without holding up other traffic . |
| 15 | A sprint to them is a 750 metre open air swim … a twenty kilometre bike ride … and a five kilometre run … |
| 16 | But it 's obvious from a quick glance that that plan that in fact a number of those settlements are already coalescing in the form of a definition of a one kilometre cordon around the the village and there are actually very few areas outside of the greenbelt in that zone which could possibly accommodate a new settlement of the size we 're contemplating , without causing coalescence . |
| 17 | The last lap was a one kilometre walk up the gently inclined slopes to the Simond Refuge . |
| 18 | A sprint to them is a 750 metre open air swim … a twenty kilometre bike ride … and a five kilometre run … |
| 19 | With its customary fury the northeast monsoon flung its nightly torrent of rain onto the close-packed ranks of rubber trees sprouting from the red-brown jungle soils of the Vi An plantation a hundred kilometres north of Saigon . |
| 20 | 60% of child cycle owners have less than a two kilometre journey to school ; |
| 21 | It 's a seven kilometre tour . |
| 22 | The seven nuns stepped from the safe enclosure of the Carmel Convent in Nunnery Lane to face a voyage on a cargo ship followed by a 1,000 kilometre drive through the Kalahari desert . |
| 23 | EIGHT Darlington nuns face a gruelling sea journey and a 1,000 kilometre trek through desert on an epic journey to Africa . |
| 24 | The collective dose to the total population ( about 2 million ) within an 80 kilometre radius of the Three Mile Island plant has been estimated to be 3300 person rem ( for the period from 28 March to 7 April ) with an average dose to individuals of 1.5 mrem . |