How To Use Kilometre In A Sentence

And I think the resort is about 25% overpriced, considering the worn-down state of the place and the fact you can get a two-night package at the definitely more upmarket Avillion in Port Dickson (also not really PD, but a dozen kilometres south) from about RM800 as well. Vacations: Tiara Beach Resort — Fusion Despatches
It ought to be pointed out that calculating passenger kilometres is an inexact science.
In the seven games that they won the young squad travelled thousands of kilometres, lording it over 191 other contesting schools.
To our dismay, unknown to us there was a motel only three kilometres down the road.
The rocks are deformed into kilometre-scale monoclinal folds, the axes of which plunge moderately to steeply north northwest.

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The bus is a far lower environmental burden than passenger cars, calculated on the number of passengers per kilometre.
It is located in a layer at an average height of 12 kilometres above the Earth's surface.
The leak forced a controlled descent of the giant balloon about 250 kilometres to the west of the launch site.
To escape from the Moon's gravitational field, a sample must be accelerated to a velocity above 2.4 kilometres per second.
You know how it is, when you're sitting out in the dark, 50 kilometres from the nearest place of inhabitation, and you turn on the light, even the tiniest little three LED gizmo.
Fish and whole forests died and water became non-potable, turning 30 kilometres of the river system into a moonscape.
Dr Leander Starr Jameson led a group of over 500 men with the intention of taking control of the town, but was met and overpowered by the burghers in Krugersdorp, 30 kilometres north west of the town.
They have been entombed in a cramped steel cage almost a kilometre beneath the surface since April 25 when an earthquake in the southern state of Tasmania triggered a rockfall.
Afghan engineers and their mentors pieced together a 42-metre, metal "overbridge" earlier this week at Kandahar Airfield and then moved parts of the Meccano-like structure a few kilometres to the blast site. Dose.ca Music briefs
The helicopter can zip along at about 150 kilometres an hour.
Your Silent Nights and Joy to the Worlds manage to be special and festive without first being coated with a cubic kilometre of sickly sentimentality.
Only a few hundreds of kilometres from Lusaka off the Great East road, Luangwa has seen very little development ever since it was established as a boma.
This meant that you'd be driving along, and suddenly have to take a detour, sometimes of up to 15 kilometres.
The densities per square kilometre of its human and livestock populations are greater than anywhere else in the continent.
Arcos, 30 kilometres east of Jerez, is perched on a huge rock which thrusts 200 metres up from the Rio Guadalete.
About 100 kilometres away from the boma, a bare-footed lad trudged his way to a ramshackle school in Luumbo village down in the Gwembe valley.
The deepest mines are four kilometres underground. Times, Sunday Times
The whales had beached near the Dolphin Bay boat ramp and another larger pod had come ashore near a caravan park on Mandalay Beach, four kilometres west of Busselton.
More than 2,000 car-crazed students are motoring from the French capital and across 6,000 kilometres of African desert in a different kind of race. Yahoo! News: Top Stories
Stephenson, who constructed both projects, believed that gradients should be less than 1 percent and that curves should have very wide radii of at least a kilometre.
A few kilometres away from Madras city on the Coromandal coast, the boom of chisel and hammer rises in the sandy wilderness, above crashing waves and soughing winds.
All along the rupture, the seafloor moved vertically about ten metres, which displaced hundreds of kilometres of overlaying water resulting in a massive tsunami.
The goal was Gafsa, some hundred and seventy kilometres inland, and if the weather stayed hot and the thermals were good they might make it. SKORPION'S DEATH
Occupying a 43 square kilometre patch of lowland, it's home to 155 orphaned and displaced simians who share 99.6 per cent of our genetic make up.
Electrons move at a speed of a few kilometres per second through a circuit, whereas light travels at nearly 300,000 kilometres per second.
This textbook provides an introduction to turbulent motion occurring naturally in the ocean on scales ranging from millimetres to hundreds of kilometres.
The road is built over approximately 200 kilometres of lakes and portages in order to allow for transportation of fuel, housing materials and other goods required by the community.
The moonlets range from 32 km to just six kilometres in diameter, the team said in the British weekly, Nature.
This flight is now proceeding to Paris at a speed of 1 000 kilometres an hour.
In 1986, ESA's Giotto spacecraft performed the closest comet fly-by ever achieved by any spacecraft (at a distance of 600 kilometres from Halley).
A fortnight ago, 800,000 square kilometres of land were under water across the region.
One of them was a really courageous person who travelled a few thousand kilometres on a two-wheeler bike. Naomi Campbell Interviews Vladimir Putin (PHOTO)
Many of the thallophytes, bryophytes and pteridophytes are found here exclusively because of the special topographical and climatic features of the locality, and are not to be found for hundreds of kilometres around in other areas.
More than 100 people aired their views on what should happen to a two kilometre stretch of land along the River Wharfe.
Instead they found a circular patch of badly charred and flattened trees 60 kilometres across, formed by the airburst as the rock disintegrated explosively due to the huge stresses caused by entry into the atmosphere.
Some 1400 kilometres of earthworks need to be completed before it can take the ballast, sleepers and rails.
Because the well water is discoloured and foul-smelling, people have to walk about two kilometres looking for cleaner water.
Unfortunately, past the chalet, the wind has come up and the final 6 kilometres over the moonscape is a vastly different challenge from our first ascent from Bedoin. PezCyclingNews.com
The deepest mines are four kilometres underground. Times, Sunday Times
We topped the pass as the first drops of rain fell, and then beat the storm in a reckless 20 kilometres downhill dash.
Drive on for a kilometre; then take a right turn.
On one tank of fuel it can cover a distance of a thousand kilometres.
The wildfire affected more than 12 square kilometres of natural bushland, with a number of dangerous situations developing throughout the day.
Carnon Consolidated has applied for planning permission to extend underground by 2 kilometres toward another small settlement, Carharrack.
A few kilometres from the last former Soviet army checkpoint, the tarmac ends and the journey to Ground Zero continues off-road, across the parched and endless steppe.
How can this happen on a planet that has an estimated 1400 million cubic kilometres of water?
Typical recessional speed for Virgo cluster galaxies is about 1,200 kilometres/second.
Commercial fishing will be banned permanently in a million square kilometres of ocean teeming with sharks, turtles and whales. Times, Sunday Times
The campus covers an area of twenty square kilometres.
And a few kilometres away, on the Pacific coast, American tourists sit in resorts, drinking cervezas and taking photos of the titi monkeys playing in a nearby tree.
Visitors looking for a less ‘interactive’ attraction can pay a visit to Langkawi Crystal, Malaysia's only glass-blowing factory, which is several kilometres north of the capital Kuah.
The map has a scale of one centimetre to the kilometre.
Analysis of the echoes produced will reveal much about the composition of the top five kilometres of the crust.
In the Beysehir region, kilometre-sized blocks of fusulinid-bearing Permian limestone occur directly beneath the ophiolite.
"Transco has 280 kilometres of 48 inch diameter pipe in the UK and we have had no problems.
That doesn't mean bragging about the tough 10-kilometre run you managed to squeeze in during the lunch hour or how much weight you can bench press.
The upscale resort developers continue to covet two square kilometres of rare montane habitat on the Rocky Mountains' eastern slopes near Rocky Mountain House.
Most people walk at an average rate of 5 kilometres an hour.
Every couple of kilometres we passed hill villages, closely packed mazes of flat-roofed mud buildings clinging like beehives to the steep valley walls.
The location is 77 kilometres northwest of Port Vila, close enough to pose some threat of a tsunami, the USGS said. 6.5 Quake Strikes Sea Floor NW of Vanuatu
They rarely move more than two kilometres from their nesting places. Times, Sunday Times
Two small campgrounds are located just outside the park, each less than a kilometre from the trailhead parking lots. Globe and Mail
The slope spans some 15 kilometres and provides the whole gamut of difficulty levels for ‘skating’ and ‘classic’ skiing.
It is expected that the Government will soon switch the speed limits from miles to kilometres.
The winds from the same impact would have flattened forests 1000 kilometres away. The Crisis of Life on Earth - our legacy from the second millenium
They have been sold and resold by their masters only within a radius of five kilometres.
The next day his body was found four kilometres away. Times, Sunday Times
As we come up over a rise, endless cultivated orchards stretch for many kilometres against a backdrop of blue mountain ridges.
Energizer has initiated discussions with Asia Thai Mining (Pan African Mining), one of two companies that are developing the large Sakoa coalfield, which is located approximately 30 kilometres northwest of the Green Giant Vanadium Project. Marketwire - Breaking News Releases
The fact that the new motorway now stretches for 72 kilometres from Dublin to Dundalk has made the town much more commutable, especially for those working at Dublin airport.
That means the elevator shaft must extend upwards for another 64,000 kilometres.
The event consisted of a five and ten kilometre run and walk as well as a one kilometre for the very young, the old and the not so fit.
A two-kilometre perimeter fence for the broader area is also planned.
It has been estimated that an individual polar bear will cover an area equal to 259,000 square kilometres during its lifetime.
Preparation turned to execution when the explosives were detonated, resulting in a massive grey cloud and the loud crump of the explosion, which could be heard over four kilometres away.
The retrieved tachograph had recorded a speed of 122 kilometres per hour at the time of the accident.
These two effects cancel each other out at an altitude of about 25 kilometres.
It has 8,000 kilometres of shores going from sand dunes to volcanic headlands.
Thousands of cubic kilometres of ash were thrown into the Earth 's atmosphere. The Sun
This latter emission is a well-known indicator of shock activity for shock velocities of up to several hundred kilometres a second.
They laid down 60,000 kilometres of railway lines almost a century back.
Five kilometres from the city centre is an indigenous piece of veld of great historical importance to the people of Johannesburg.
More than 80 lifts serve 220 kilometres of ski runs suitable for all abilities.
Thousands of cubic kilometres of ash were thrown into the Earth 's atmosphere. The Sun
Before that, is a torturous trek down the three-kilometre stretch before you reach the saner parts of Bangalore.
The reserve covers an area of some 1 140 square kilometres.
We are talking of thousands of square kilometres of hothouses, factories and packing plants.
It was bounded by two rivers from seventeen to thirty metres wide, and navigable for boats three to five kilometres.
With a range of five kilometres, marines can set them up behind advancing troops, clearing the way ahead.
Vast ice shelves in the Ross and Weddell Seas calve off huge tabular icebergs of hundreds and even thousands of square kilometres, that float away from Antarctica and into the Southern Ocean and drift north.
A large proportion of farmers found to be fiddling the system are based within three kilometres of the border with the North.
Visitors looking for a less ‘interactive’ attraction can pay a visit to Langkawi Crystal, Malaysia's only glass-blowing factory, which is several kilometres north of the capital Kuah.
A funicular railway scales the mountain to the jumping-off point for the sledge run, which winds five kilometres downhill back to the railway terminus.
Eight kilometres is roughly equivalent to five miles.
The bags were later loaded onto railway trucks and pulled by two teams of Clydesdale horses nearly six kilometres to the Stenhouse Bay jetty for loading into the waiting ships.
They were detected at depths of more than a kilometre in the sea.
Interest was revived in 1995 when a 60 kilometre coastal race from Mombassa was held.
My destination was the sleepy town of Yallingup some 265 kilometres from Perth where the Ngilgi Caves are located.
The newly designed gun ranges 9 kilometres.
After a chat we were on our way, most of the day's climbing done on a quiet kilometre of back road up the side of a valley otherwise chock-a-block with bracken.
The 60-kilometre canal would have been as wide as this building, including the batter.
It is one kilometre wide by a kilometre and a half long and the chicks are protected from predators by electrified wire fencing.
On 8 July 1871 Gason reported that a large mob of cattle had been seen some 300 kilometres north of the station.
Eight kilometres is roughly equivalent to five miles.
Tropical savannahs cover 1.9 million square kilometres - that's about a quarter of mainland Australia.
Of course I zigged when I should of zagged and wound up 2 kilometres out of my way.
The earthquake had its epicentre two-hundred kilometres north-east of the capital.
The river, called the Datong, originates in the tablelands of Northwest China's Qinghai Province and runs 554 kilometres down to Gansu Province.
The Nevis is a pilot site for the system: a full digital solution with its own microwave wide area network for wireless communications, along with kilometres of fibre optics to capture digital photo and video images from weird and wonderful camera locations all over the gorge. Computerworld
As with metres and kilometres, we need some new units, or we'd need a lot of zeroes!
With about 9 000 kilometres of surfaced roads and 2 000 kilometres of unsurfaced roads, the Johannesburg Roads Agency has its work cut out.
The first dinosaur trackway - a trail of 34 footprints of an Allosaurus - was identified by Zimbabwean geologist Tim Broderick only two kilometres away from the new site.
Zoroastrianism is one of the world's oldest religions and was founded by Zarathustra, who is believed to have lived in the ancient city of Bactria, now called Balkh and about 30 kilometres north of Cheshma-e-Shafa. News
One of the three timescales even allowed the estimation of the fracture size: about five kilometres across.
By the summer of 1792 France was being invaded and Paris itself, a mere 200 kilometres from the north-eastern border, was cruelly exposed.
There is a pleasant walk of about a kilometre alongside the race as far as its headworks, where a weir on a mountain stream intercepts the water.
The two lagoons are enclosed by two strips of land called Feniglia and Giannella tombolos, where tourists can find kilometres of delightful beaches.
LUSAKA: At least 31 people died and dozens were seriously injured when two passenger trains collided in the southern Zambian town of Kalomo, 400 kilometres (250 miles) from Lusaka, police said. ANC Daily News Briefing
They've started doing some trawls as they approached the sea mounts, so yesterday they ran a net at 1.3 kilometres deep in an area of open ocean that was 3.6 kilometres deep.
MLC leader Jean-Pierre Bemba announced a week ago that his rebels would not send delegations to Sun City, which is some 200 kilometres (125 miles) northwest of Johannesburg. ANC Daily News Briefing
The scale of alteration can vary in extent from less than a centimetre to many tens of kilometres.
And he has raised his game so much since then that he goes to Athens as world kilometre champion - and a red-hot favourite for gold.
During a typical summer's day, a mountain goat may travel around a kilometre in search of food.
Eight kilometres is roughly equivalent to five miles.
As director, he will be responsible for over 4,000 kilometres of roads and an annual budget of ￡50 million.
It runs for about 25 kilometres, but it doesn't run in a square, it sort of runs in stages around this lovely big piece of mulga sand plain that Peter's chosen as the ideal spot.
Meadow Farm is 50 square kilometres in area.
The Motu inhabit a region which now includes the capital city, Port Moresby, and the Hula live about 110 kilometres to the east.
Never mind the irony of the situation - the plight of those we went to help along the coast, just a few kilometres south.
It is arguing furiously against the European Commission's goal of reducing average fleet emissions to 130 grams of CO2 per kilometre by 2012, and the new fuel-economy rules being drawn up in America.
Drive on for a kilometre; then take a right turn.
Rainwater in volcanic areas can descend as far as several kilometres into the crust, later rising to the surface in hot springs or geysers.
They will be joining nearly 150 Territorial Army gunners from across the country to form 220 Battery which is being sent to guard the Shaibah Logistics Base, eight kilometres south-west of Basra.
In a dawn raid on a mock village 120 men fought their way through eight kilometres of desert terrain as temperatures edged towards 30C. Times, Sunday Times
The northern Gold Coast facility boasts a four kilometre circuit set on 500 hectares of natural bushland.
Clearly, in order to save some money, the carousel has been set up in downtown Oslo, about ten kilometres away.
In hand-hewn boats, these brave seafarers paddled their way from distant shores, traversing thousands of kilometres of open sea.
If it has come from something like that, then the airborne bacteria what we call a plume could have travelled over several kilometres given the right weather conditions, and that's the scenario we are looking at now. WalesOnline - Home
The newspaper's office, a few kilometres away, is far from spiffy, even as it bristles with strategy ideas.
A soldier was killed and two others injured Saturday when their convoy was ambushed by armed militants in Mizrana, in the Kabylia region about 110 kilometres (69 miles) east of the capital, the sources said. ANC Daily News Briefing
Our tour operator drove 1,000 kilometres to meet us with a replacement guide, and we resumed our interrupted itinerary of dunes, game lodges and safari parks.
You claim you did not know the difference between kilometres per hour and miles per hour. The Sun
Miguel Tapia Huenulef, 45, was arrested as a suspect in an arson attempt perpetrated in January on an estate called San Leandro near the town of Lautaro, in the region of AraucanÃa, over 600 kilometres south of Santiago. Anarkismo.net
Lagoons, for instance, and other standing water sites within two kilometres of densely populated areas will be targeted.
There were about a dozen kilometres of line, running from the upper dockyards down to a yard near the docks below the falls.
It's a good six kilometres away from our university.
The caves that give it its name stretch up to half a kilometre into steep cliffs. The Sun
Next we will be having our speedometers changed from miles per hour to kilometres per hour.
We can be 140 kilometres from the sea, and yet there'll be bronze whalers, stingrays, the highest level of freshwater turtle diversity in Australia.
After a walk of eight kilometres, it's quite a relief.
The last kilometre will be the most stressful. The Sun
It's about two kilometres from the airport to your hotel.
It consists of 8.5 kilometres of ducting with cable and serves the main industrial and business campuses, commercial areas and schools.
It was therefore within the two kilometre range of these rockets.
Multiply a hectometre by 10 and get a kilometre.
Because the unit can be traced over several tens of kilometres, we suggest it marks a sub-regionally significant event in the Emeishan Province as basalt production terminated.
Sir Stamford Raffles, the then British Lieutenant Governor of Java, reported a series of titanic detonations loud enough to be heard in Sumatra 1,600 kilometres away.
Tectonic ironstones are typically 5-10 m thick horizons that are continuous for hundreds of metres to several kilometres.
They will move around about a quarter of a kilometre an hour and if you measure their rate of moving, they have small home ranges.
The aggregate number of kilometres of road that have been tarred, bridges built or repaired can also be quantified.
After hours of mind-numbing driving on roads that threaten to separate your vehicle into its component parts and spread them over 300 kilometres of bulldust, you arrive at Australia's most remote roadhouse just before sundown.
The ancient city of Naachtun is situated in the heart of the Maya region, just one kilometre south of the Mexican border, in far northern Guatemala.
In the latest incident, Pentagon press secretary George Little said the Iranians aboard a cargo boat known as a dhow about 80 kilometres southeast of the Iraqi port of Umm Qasr used flares and flashlights to hail the cutter Monomoy at 3 a.m. local time Tuesday. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
He noted that the gorge cut through an elevated tableland and extended about 11 kilometres from the Falls down to Queenston.
It covers a large area in terms of several hundred square kilometres, but it's only in very small patches within that area.
Alec Danfoss, who farmed land not a kilometre from Karsten had placed his children, Jenny and Julia the six year old twins, and their eight year tainted brother Randall, into his dingy and lashed it to the back of his ox cart.
Meadow Farm is 50 square kilometres in area.
The cableway is the world's longest at 7.5 kilometres and each of the towers had been airlifted in place by helicopters to minimize the impact on the rainforest. TravelPod.com Recent Updates
Moreover, glacial eustasy is rejected because of the lack of evidence for widespread glaciation at the appropriate stratigraphic level and because the required kilometre-scale drawdown far exceeds that expected through glaciation.
Forest on one side of the road; forest a kilometre off on the other. Times, Sunday Times
$274,850 for improvements to the Baysville bandshell, which is 31 kilometres from the site and also incomplete. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
The airport was about 20 kilometres distant.
Kilometres below a city sparkles like an intricate necklace at the throat of a continent.
He crashed in the final 15 kilometres of Dwars door Vlaanderen after a bidon was caught up in his front wheel.
Another initiative is the creation of a 1,300 kilometre fibre trunk along the national power transmission grid.
Widespread outrage followed the fatal police shooting last week of a gold panner during a raid on an illegal mine in Shurugwi, about 300 kilometres (187 miles) south-west of Harare. ANC Daily News Briefing
A few kilometres further on we reached the "bizarre monticule," from which sprouted a still more bizarre château. The Princess Passes
He pointed to a coastal campground about three kilometres south of Oostvoorne. CORMORANT
She was asked to walk a kilometre and wait outside a bikie pub to be picked up, and dropped at the end of shooting.
The UK government committed to introduce metrication over a 10-year period 40 years ago but has yet to introduce kilometres on our roads.
Locust swarms can travel for thousands of kilometres between summer, winter and spring breeding areas and are capable of causing devastating damage to crops.
The unlikely three-square-kilometre site was the Oberwiesenfeld, formerly used for Royal Bavarian Army exercises and later converted into an airport.
Between the major transform faults are sections of spreading centres many hundreds of kilometres long but still typically trending obliquely to the spreading direction.
Printed out and laid end to end, they would cover a distance of 1.3 kilometres.
He/she will then putz along at 50 kilometres an hour while sightseeing.
Instead, Io's surface is dominated by volcanic features, notably gentle shield volcanoes with summit calderas several tens of kilometres across and surrounded by radial lava flows.
The deepest mines are four kilometres underground. Times, Sunday Times
The borehole is located onshore NW Wales, a few kilometres seaward of the surface trace of the Mochras fault.
By the odometer it's about 1.5 kilometres, or half a klick shorter than the other route, which ends up in the same place, but approaches it from the north.
They all need kilometres of heavy wiring and are drains on the main battery. Times, Sunday Times
But instead of going to London she married Frank King and moved to remote Hatches Creek, a wolfram mining town 400 kilometres north of Alice Springs.
They claim the water is contaminated with heavy metals that have leached from the unlined evaporation ponds which cover two square kilometres of the 15-square kilometre site.
This will include driving at a maximum speed of 30 kilometres an hour and dropping off and picking up passengers only after buses have halted exactly at their stops.
If you read about there being only 110 pisted kilometres, ignore that. Times, Sunday Times
The train suddenly increased speed and jumped the tracks after leaving Waterfall railway station, about 40 kilometres south of Sydney.

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