(n.) A measure of length, being a thousand meters. It is equal to 3,280.8 feet, or 62137 of a mile.
Example Sentences:
(1) Shenhua Watermark Coal, a subsidiary of the Chinese state-owned Shenhua Group, is waiting for final approval from Hunt for a $1.2bn open-cut coalmine on the edge of the plains, a little more than three kilometres from Hamparsum’s property.
(2) Hours after the firefight ended, and just a few dozen kilometres away, a "very reliable" member of the Afghan local police turned his gun on two British soldiers.
(3) But within a few kilometres of these monuments to tyranny stand symbols of renewal – rows of solar panels bringing stable electricity to the homes of local people for the first time – and with them the chance of improving their lives.
(4) Fracking for shale gas involves digging, often as deep as a kilometre down, and pumping a mix of water, sand and chemicals into surrounding rock to fracture it and release the gas.
(5) The north west was the only area where litter decreased, falling by 60% per kilometre.
(6) La Manga in Spain is an example of human nonsense: 20km of city length, two kilometres wide, with huge buildings all along,” said Couet.
(7) The cull was implemented at four other sites owned by the same company and at a sixth farm less than a kilometre from the site of the confirmed outbreak.
(8) At kilometre 254 is a giant roadside advertisement for a bank.
(9) The race itself will feature 120 cyclists starting at 12.45pm and covering 13 laps of the Tour's finish circuit up and down the Champs Elysées, turning at Place de la Concorde and at the Arc de Triomphe, with a total distance of 90 kilometres.
(10) Through the year, a herd of elephants may move over a very large area in search of food and water – sometimes more than 1,000 square kilometres.
(11) Co-operation by outside centres has made it possible to offer bone marrow chromosome analysis to patients living up to 1800 kilometres from the central cytogenetics laboratory.
(12) It’s a bit of a trek to get there: a few kilometres drive along a dirt road and then a short walk, with arrows painted on stones.
(13) Controlled burn by mine operator in Kakadu sparks out-of-control bushfire Read more The bushfire which started on 1 October destroyed more than 200 square kilometres of bushland in the world heritage national park, and threatened a number of culturally and historically significant sites.
(14) I broke my kilometre record, for sure, but that’s not incompatible with my style.” The balance under Luis Enrique bears that out: a treble and a double.
(15) Along the way, you will come across art installations, pop-up bars, street art and a poetry installation on buildings stretching for 10 kilometres called The Phrase.
(16) During Saturday’s search activities the crew of a civil aircraft sent out by Amsa reported sighting a number of small objects with the naked eye, including a wooden pallet, within a radius of five kilometres,” the statement said.
(17) To find the particles, scientists built a detector into a cubic kilometre of ice in Antarctica.
(18) And BMW claimed its ActiveHybrid X6 will deliver eco-friendly high-performance - but its CO2 emissions of 231 grams per kilometre compares badly with the EU's 2012 target for average emissions from new cars of 120g.
(19) Now we are just suffering.” Hundreds of kilometres away in a small town in the hills of the Rift Valley, Fred Musinai was struggling to come to terms with the loss of his daughter.
(20) About half a kilometre up the hill, take a left on to Rua Euclides da Rocha and you'll find Point Lanches, also know as the Bar do Baiano.
Mile
Definition:
(n.) A certain measure of distance, being equivalent in England and the United States to 320 poles or rods, or 5,280 feet.
Example Sentences:
(1) On 9 January 2002, a few hours after Blair became the first western leader to visit Afghanistan's new post-Taliban leader, Hamid Karzai, an aircraft carrying the first group of MI5 interrogators touched down at Bagram airfield, 32 miles north of Kabul.
(2) One man has died in storms sweeping across the UK that have brought 100-mile-an-hour winds and led to more than 50 flood warnings being issued with widespread disruption on the road and rail networks in much of southern England and Scotland.
(3) It is not that the concept of food miles is wrong; it is just too simplistic, say experts.
(4) Tepco has taken on a US consultant, Lake Barrett , who led the NRC's cleanup of Three Mile Island, the worst commercial nuclear power accident in the nation's history.
(5) "Runners, for instance, need a high level of running economy, which comes from skill acquisition and putting in the miles," says Scrivener, "But they could effectively ease off the long runs and reduce the overall mileage by introducing Tabata training.
(6) Liu was a driving force behind the modernisation of China's rail system, a project that included building 10,000 miles of high-speed rail track by 2020 – with a budget of £170bn, one of the most expensive engineering feats in recent history.
(7) Asked if his donation to Filner, who has a district about 2,500 miles from where Sharif lives, was because of his position on Iran and the MEK, Sharif said that it was.
(8) Similarly, while those in the City continue to adopt a Millwall FC-style attitude of "no one likes us, we don't care", there is no incentive for them to heed the advice and demands of the public, who those in the Square Mile prefer to dismiss as intemperate ignoramuses.
(9) I want to follow the west bank of the river south for some 100 miles to a bluff overlooking the river, where Sitting Bull is buried – and then, in the evening, to return to Bismarck.
(10) But after 26.2 miles of pain it may be harder to keep that smile on his face.
(11) Miles will be replaced in September by former hedge fund economist Gertjan Vlieghe .
(12) Guzmán was sent to Altiplano high-security prison, 56 miles outside Mexico City, but in July 2015, he absconded again, squeezing through a hole in his shower floor then fleeing on a modified motorbike through a mile-long tunnel fitted with lights and a ventilation system.
(13) Miles Shipside, Rightmove director, said: "The number of new sellers is slightly up on the same period last year, though perhaps as a reflection of their urgency to sell, or to compensate for the distraction of the achievements served up by Team GB, they have dropped their asking prices more aggressively than summer sellers in previous years."
(14) The closest town of any size is Burns, population 2,806, where you should stock up on petrol, food and water before heading south into the wilderness on the 66-mile Steens Mountain Backcountry Byway.
(15) The following year, I organised and took part in a cycle ride from John O'Groats to Land's End, covering 900 miles in nine days through this beautiful country.
(16) You had to let it crash over you.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘Miles’s life was torture’ … Lu Spinney at home.
(17) Her unclothed remains were found six months later by mushroom pickers at Yateley Heath Woods, near Fleet, Hampshire, 25 miles away.
(18) The young screenwriters possibly needed to have chalked up a few miles before they could deliver really workable scripts."
(19) "It could be the difference between really struggling over the last three or four miles and getting over the finishing line before you dehydrate.
(20) Just one problem (apart from the old roof falling off): it's 60 miles from my desk.