Example sentences of "[adj] kilometres [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some 700 kilometres south of Cairo , Luxor 's palaces and temples still command awe . |
| 2 | Of humble origins and mixed Spanish and native South American blood , the Patiños of Cochabamba ( in the Andes some 300 kilometres southeast of Bolivia 's capital , La Paz ) , found themselves shortly after World War I in possession of one of the world 's great fortunes . |
| 3 | Who will ever believe that I lay there , stripped naked , 1,000 metres up on top of a hill that is 300 kilometres north of the Arctic Circle ? |
| 4 | How can it be that here , on a north-facing cliff , with nothing between it and the North pole and situated more than 300 kilometres north of the Arctic Circle , the vegetation can look like that . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | We had sailed up the brown Tambopata forty kilometres south from Puerto Maldonaldo in a skiff that barely cleared the water . |
| 8 | Magharba reinforcements from Bishr turned up and camped in a clump of trees a few kilometres west of town . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | A taxi took them from the airport to Commander Zadak 's office , some kilometres north of Sydney . |
| 15 | Vaudemanges is just 2 kilometres south of Billy-le-Grand . |
| 16 | The area , 45 kilometres north of Prince Rupert , was first proposed by the BC government as a conservation area for grizzlies 18 years ago . |
| 17 | They got their way , and the building opened in 1986 as the Foothill Communities Law and Justice Center , about 100 kilometres east of Los Angeles . |
| 18 | She passed about forty-eight kilometres north of Krakatoa on the evening of the twenty-sixth , spent the night of the twenty-sixth to seventh anchored in Telok Betong , tried to sail again for Anjer in the morning , but was prevented from doing so by the violence of the eruption . |
| 19 | Six kilometres north of the town rose the gentle slopes of Mt Pelee , not a particularly impressive volcano , only 2,250 metres high . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The archipelago of Svalbard is Europe 's most northerly land , lying only 900 kilometres from the North Pole and some 600 kilometres north of Tromsø in northern Norway . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | and go five kilometres south west to a point b , and then three kilometres south to a point c |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Geologically , the most critical zone is the junction between the two plates , which is defined by two major physical features ; the extreme depths of the Chile-Peru Trench , which runs along just off-shore of the continent , and the extreme heights of the Andes mountains , the crest line of which runs parallel to and 350 kilometres east of the Trench [ see Fig. 3 ] . |
| 26 | Roughly how many kilometres width of coal seams have been eroded away between the Lancashire and Yorkshire coalfields ? |
| 27 | Alas , Barents got no further than Novaya Zemlja , a large island in the Russian Arctic , about a thousand kilometres east of Svalbard . |
| 28 | The World Bank has postponed payment of a loan to Thailand to complete a large dam across the Mool River , 570 kilometres northeast of Bangkok , until the government has analyzed independent environmental-impact studies and carried out new assessments of its own . |
| 29 | Trépail is just 3 kilometres north of the grand cru villages , Bouzy and Ambonnay , on the southeastern extremity of the Montagne de Reims . |
| 30 | 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 . |