Example sentences of "a few kilometres [prep] " 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 | Ferrying American aircraft to Russia had kept him far away from his own village a few kilometres outside Moscow . |
| 5 | In his English Botany ( 1806 ) James Sowerby mentions them as in their millions on the coast a few kilometres off Liverpool . |
| 6 | The entire coastal fringe from Chilaw south to a few kilometres into Hambantota district was the most densely populated part of the island . |
| 7 | Kabelvåg campsite is a few kilometres beyond the village , on the flanks of a charming little beach and remarkably civilized . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | The most convincing leys are short — usually only a few kilometres in length and probably never more than 30 km long . |
| 12 | Pulsars are compact stars a few kilometres in diameter with masses around . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 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 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 . |
| 16 | Pablo Escobar , the leader of the Medellín drug cartel , escaped from La Catedral prison in Envigado , a few kilometres from Medellín , on July 22 as an attempt was made to transfer him to an army barracks . |
| 17 | ‘ Some friends of mine live a few kilometres from here . |