Example sentences of "a few [num] kilometres " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first chain starts off right down in the Antarctic , a few hundred kilometres from the South Pole . |
| 2 | This is much higher than the typical velocities of galactic masers ( less than a few hundred kilometres per second ) . |
| 3 | Their spectra show that the radiating gas is excited by hydrodynamical shock fronts and that shock velocities of up to a few hundred kilometres a second are involved . |
| 4 | Large particles will fall out within a few hundred kilometres of the detonation site ( the local fallout ) while smaller particles and gaseous radionuclides injected into the troposphere may be transported around the earth in the same hemisphere and between hemispheres by , for example , the East African low-level jet stream ( Findlater , 1974 ) , to be deposited hundreds or even many thousands of kilometres away ( the tropospheric fallout ) . |
| 5 | Variable and strong low-level winds held most of the individual smoke plumes below an altitude of 3–4 km within a few hundred kilometres of their oilfield sources . |
| 6 | ‘ I never heard of a transmat with a range of more than a few thousand kilometres , so I 'd say we 're probably going somewhere else on this planet . ’ |