Example sentences of "kilometres [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | C Company were the UK Key Company for Exercise Avenue Express , and were based in the coastal town of Hofoaek , fifty kilometres west of Copenhagen . |
| 2 | Magharba reinforcements from Bishr turned up and camped in a clump of trees a few kilometres west of town . |
| 3 | Approximately thirty-two kilometres west of the narrowest point of the Straits there lay a small group of rather oddly-named islands : Krakatoa , Verlaten Island , Lang Island and , oddest of all , Polish Hat . |
| 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 | Often called ‘ Britain 's loneliest outpost ’ , the small island group of St Kilda lies nearly eighty kilometres west of the Hebrides in Scotland , out in the storm-tossed waters of the north Atlantic Ocean . |
| 6 | Barrow , about 250 kilometres west of Prudhoe Bay . |
| 7 | A five kilometres stretch of Dere Street north of Monteviot was easy to walk in 1990 , yet Hamish diverted around it as it showed ‘ no indication of being salvaged and made available ’ ( only the Teviot crossing and Monteviot House required a diversion , and Borders Region plans to open this stretch in 1992 ) . |
| 8 | This memorial is 8 kilometres north-east of Beaucourt-Hamel railway station and south of Thiepval village . |
| 9 | Champagne is the most northerly of the AOC ( Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée ) wine regions of France , lying approximately I50 kilometres north-east of Paris , and separated from Belgium to the north by the hills and dense forests of the Ardennes . |
| 10 | They are planted in east and south-east-facing aspects along a ridge which stretches from Allemant , seven kilometres north-east of Sézanne , to Villenauxe-la-Grande , twenty kilometres south-west . |
| 11 | There are two springs in particular that interested them , 200 kilometres north-east of Calcutta and some 30 kilometres apart near Shantiniketan where the Indian poet Tagore lived . |
| 12 | Vasiliki , with its curious L-shaped half temple on a ship-shaped hill on the Isthmus of Ierapetra , was 20 kilometres north-east of Fournou Korifi and may have served as something of an urban centre for the villagers . |
| 13 | Teotihuacan was some twenty kilometres north-east of the centre of Mexico City and I thought I had probably glimpsed those pyramids through the dust haze as we flew in . |
| 14 | With its source barely twenty kilometres south-west of le Pailly and Langres , the Aube flows through Bar-sur-Aube — whose vineyards , together with those of Bar-sur-Seine , provide about fourteen per cent of the total production of Champagne — before joining the Seine fifteen kilometres from Nogent-sur-Seine . |
| 15 | The earthquake , measuring 6.2 on the Richter scale — about the same intensity as the 1990 San Francisco ‘ quake — was centred around 30 kilometres south-west of the town of Tari , and ten kilometres from the Hides plant at Nogoli . |
| 16 | Roughly how many kilometres width of coal seams have been eroded away between the Lancashire and Yorkshire coalfields ? |
| 17 | ‘ He travelled with us from Saudi , along the border and into Kuwait , and , amazingly enough , finished up 30 kilometres northwest of Kuwait City , which is where I last saw him . |
| 18 | hree kilometres south of the Point des Poulains is a spectacular sea-level cave , the Grotte de l'Apothicairerie . |
| 19 | Ironically enough , only the day before the St Pierre tragedy , a series of nuees were erupted from the volcano Soufriere on St Vincent , 144 kilometres south of Martinique . |
| 20 | The power of such underwater explosive activity was demonstrated forcibly in 1952 , when a Japanese research vessel , the No. 5 Kaiyo-Maru , 211 tons , was sent to investigate reports of a submarine eruption about 420 kilometres south of Tokyo . |
| 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 | Vaudemanges is just 2 kilometres south of Billy-le-Grand . |
| 23 | In particular , many families from the village of Moratuva , about fifteen kilometres south of Colombo , were among the wealthiest of the island . |
| 24 | These are situated a couple of kilometres south of Matlock and are reached by turning east off the A6 just south of the junction with the A5012 . |
| 25 | Some 700 kilometres south of Cairo , Luxor 's palaces and temples still command awe . |
| 26 | In the battle for Okinawa , 600 kilometres south of Japan , there were 50 000 American casualties ; 110 000 Japanese were killed , including not less than 3500 " kamikaze " pilots lost in suicide raids on US ships . |
| 27 | All of the departments of the Faculty , except Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science , are located on the King 's Buildings campus three kilometres south of the original site of the University . |
| 28 | They receive two cents per egg from the Swiss-based Hasselblad Wildlife Trust , which is funding the hatchery project at Kosgoda Beach , 72 kilometres south of Colombo . |
| 29 | Lake Hula and the surrounding wetlands once covered some 400 square kilometres south of the sources of the River Jordan , supporting a unique ecosystem in which tropical and temperate species lived together . |
| 30 | Two Beaufighters were vectored onto one ‘ snooper ’ 70 kilometres southwest of the island , an aircraft of 2(F)/123 . |