Example sentences of "a [adj] kilometre " in BNC.
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| 1 | The contract comprises a 4.5 kilometre extension of the M74 in Glasgow . |
| 2 | I mean within a fifty kilometre er outline of the Riyadh city there are police check points and the people are checked going in and out , none of them allowed |
| 3 | Boat leaves Dublin and sails one hundred a fifty kilometres and the variant is O point five . |
| 4 | This path forms a 1.5 kilometre off-road route between Balgreen Road and Corstorphine on the line of a disused railway . |
| 5 | SCIENTISTS in the US are planning to turn a cubic kilometre of the Antarctic ice sheet into a giant ‘ neutrino telescope ’ . |
| 6 | Lille eventually hopes to have a 70 kilometre network . |
| 7 | A biting wind gusting to 30 knots threatened to blow the fragile , 15-ft fibreglass hydroplane off course as Lady Arran made two runs over a measured kilometre . |
| 8 | Kabelvåg campsite is a few kilometres beyond the village , on the flanks of a charming little beach and remarkably civilized . |
| 9 | Magharba reinforcements from Bishr turned up and camped in a clump of trees a few kilometres west of town . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | Ferrying American aircraft to Russia had kept him far away from his own village a few kilometres outside Moscow . |
| 14 | The latter was the simple story of two villages a few kilometres apart , one of which was well-known for its beautiful cabbages while the other was famous for its grapes and wine . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The most convincing leys are short — usually only a few kilometres in length and probably never more than 30 km long . |
| 17 | If the sale had gone ahead , Rio Tinto would have developed Wheal Concord , refining its ore in the modern processing plant at Wheal Jane a few kilometres away . |
| 18 | In his English Botany ( 1806 ) James Sowerby mentions them as in their millions on the coast a few kilometres off Liverpool . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The entire coastal fringe from Chilaw south to a few kilometres into Hambantota district was the most densely populated part of the island . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | A few kilometres inland in the foothills of the Ronda mountains , nestling below the spectacular white village of Gaucin you will find — FINCA LAS LIMAS . |
| 27 | It appeared to have a road running to within a few kilometres . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 ) . |
| 30 | This ambiguity does not greatly alter our conclusions regarding airburst altitude : once an object has spread to , say , twice its initial radius , its further spreading happens so quickly that an ‘ explosion altitude ’ is defined to within a few kilometres , regardless of whether the explosion is taken to occur then or when the object has spread to 5–10 times its initial radius . |