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The house was about four kilometres from the station, but after only a minute or two the children began to ask, ' Are we nearly there? '

And it is all about meat, and where it comes from, while just a few hundred kilometres away, North Koreans are dying in a famine.

The boat was more than 15 kilometres away from shore and the radio equipment did not work.

How much fuel does it sweal per a hundred kilometres.

It was a good fishing boat but Mike bought it very cheaply. He moved the boat 100 kilometres or so to a harbour near where he lived.

Two kilometres down the dirt road our car blew a tire. When our driver looked into the trunk he discovered there was no spare!

This new technology allows him to see a vehicle from 24 kilometres away and send its location to US tanks, artillery and warplanes .

A school just a few kilometres from the front line is now home to dozens of families.

Relief equipment and personnel seem to be flowing to Beichuan county but the last 10 kilometres to town were impassable, the official said.

Second, the cost of extracting minerals from several kilometres below the surface of the sea was prohibitive.

Recent disagreement has centred on the Chunxiao gas field, which lies within China's EEZ but just a few kilometres from the median line.

I was working at my office when my sister phoned 500 kilometres away from the hospital to tell me that mother was seriously ill.

And, given that the Equator is only a few hundred kilometres away, there is only the briefest of dawns between deep night and bright day.

After millions of years in this position the new moon was drawn into a collision at a speed of less than three kilometres per second.

Mr Jackson: About 10 kilometres . Let's wait for the others. They'll catch up in a few minutes.

The hotel offers a convenient situation close to the many attractions of Nice and is only 7 kilometres from the airport.

The game has no loading zones, in order to keep the feeling of immersion and to allow you to see the horizon, 50 kilometres away.

Today, players compete for big money, wield high-tech rackets and volley the ball at speeds up to 160 kilometres per hour.

In essence, it would be a giant cable reaching tens of thousands of kilometres into space to an orbiting satellite.

From an orbit 217 kilometres above the earth, it is possible to see highways, airports, bridges, dams and even large vehicles.

Direct measurements of the temperature of the underground are confined to a depth of only a few kilometres.

Most of these satellites circle only a few hundred kilometres above the planet's solid surface.

Jews were crammed into its four square kilometres from all over the city, Poland and the German Reich.

twice a day , the observatory releases a balloon carrying a radiosonde to measure temperatures aloft , up to ten kilometres or above.

When restricted by conditions, the width of a certain airway segment may be reduced but shall not be less than 8 kilometres.

As an elected village leader, 30-year-old Chandra Kala makes regular visits to the bank a few kilometres away although she is illiterate.

We hit the road with our guide, heading for the best place to see baby lemurs up close, some 80 kilometres northeast.

With only 86 square kilometres you can hardly call it a city, a township may be more appropriate.

We were strolling along the Nevsky Prospekt, a wide avenue stretching four kilometres and filled with people, music and street entertainers.

The US geological survey said the quake had a magnitude of 8. 9, with an epicentre about 130 kilometres off Japan's east coast.

She runs six to eight kilometres one day for stamina, and on a treadmill the next day for speed.

The gases that escaped TMI, in contrast, might have travelled as far as New York state, but most stayed within 15 kilometres of the plant.

The surface is a jumble of craters, plains and immense, cliff-like scarps that can be hundreds of kilometres long.

AS RUSSIA burns to a crisp, thousands of kilometres to the south-west torrential storms visit unprecedented flooding on Pakistan.

The details of what she the suffered are disputed. But she was abducted in a car, ending up hundreds of kilometres away.

That vision is closest to coming true just a few kilometres away in Inner Mongolia, now the number one region for coal production in China.

But Mr Ishihara wants to move the market to Toyosu wharf, on reclaimed land three kilometres (two miles) further out in Tokyo bay.

Birds, for example, are said to be able to hear low frequency sounds bouncing off mountains hundreds of kilometres away.

Off the coastline are outer edge ribbon reefs which may be up to 25 kilometres long.

you could see up to a distance of 130 kilometres on a clear day.

Solar wind refers to this released energy in the form of charged particles at high speed, reaching several hundred kilometres per second.

The British have advanced only two kilometres in two months of fighting. It is a tough, frustrating and bloody business.

Of the 22 million square kilometres of farmland around the world about half had at least 10 per cent tree cover.

Sixty-one kilometres of a new bypass also opens in April, enabling goods vehicles heading for the coast to avoid the city altogether.

it is a lava lake , with a length of 3 kilometres and a width of only 300 meters , thus being named long lake.

By comparing temperatures on the same day, but some kilometres apart, the bomber raid study was able to get around this problem.

Mr Ding is now working on a new train, due to be tested next year at an astonishing 500 kilometres per hour.

It shot from a depth of more than five kilometres [3 miles] to the surface in about four hours.

The border seems to be more heavily guarded on the North Korean side. There are military points every few kilometres in some places.

With a two-day recce, an extended pre-event test and a two-day rally we thought that was a good balance of 300 kilometres on the events.

The island -- about 13 kilometres long by two kilometres wide -- has no permanent residents.

In 1902, Schjerfbeck and her mother settled in the small, industrial town of Hyvinkaa, 50 kilometres north of Helsinki.

In fact, you can just see one of the archipelago's outlying islands a few kilometres offshore.

Had disappeared. It was suspected that the impacts may extend more than two kilometres along the stream.

Syrian flag, three kilometres long, was paraded up and down the road.

The transport and cargo plane then smashed into a greenhouse and came to rest in a garlic field about 80 kilometres from Seoul.

It is located in an old channel of the Indus River at a distance of 35 kilometres east of Karachi city centre.

The stratosphere begins about 12 kilometres up, above the troposphere where weather systems like the monsoon develop.

Twelve kilometres of cabling will be laid for the installation of a new IT system, bringing her systems in line with the common MOD network.

The nearest puskesmas (a local community health centre) is 21 kilometres away, and it is only open two days a week.

AS TORRENTIAL storms visit unprecedented flooding on Pakistan, thousands of kilometres to the northwest Russia burns.

Nearly two kilometres of the expressway is elevated , and a section of the Airport Railway will run below it .

even tracking marine animals thousands of kilometres across the ocean.

In response, Beijing Metro spokesman Jia Peng says the total mileage of the subway will be over 450 kilometres with the additional lines.

About 20 kilometres from the Russian border , in the heart of Lapland--in the middle of nowhere with pine trees all around laden with snow.

A tail of dust and gas may stretch millions of kilometres across the sky.

She said speed limiters would cap the speed of transport trucks and other large vehicles at 105 kilometres an hour.

The British have advanced only two kilometres in two months of fighting.

We drive 10 kilometres in a comfortable minibus to the pit face, 355 metres below the surface.

Over those distances, even a sharp laser beam would spread to thousands of kilometres wide by the time it reached Earth.

The record levels follow severe sandstorms thousands of kilometres to the north around the Chinese capital.

This allows gravity to be measured with great precision as the satellite circles Earth at an altitude of approximately 255 kilometres.

Towering rolling down the Rocky Mountains, from north to south, thousands of kilometres long.

Shoppers usually travel only a few kilometres from home or work to compare prices.

The vast majority of the world's most active volcanoes are within a few tens of kilometres of the coast (see map).

If the global population shifted to a low-meat diet, around 15 million square kilometres of farmland would be freed up.

They left some more black flags near the Pole, and one twenty-eight kilometres north. Then they skied away, back to the north.

The site in West Antarctica is at least 12 miles (20 kilometres) from open seas.

The satellite was supposed to be placed into orbit about 650 kilometres above the earth, where it would track carbon-dioxide emissions.

They get coal out of the ground, change it into electricity, and send it hundreds of kilometres away.

I believe I would need many more kilometres and experience to race in F1, so the best thing would be to arrive well prepared next year.

John works in a factory about ten kilometres from his home.

Such pulses can travel thousands of kilometres, which means they are frequently picked up by more than one of ATDnet's sensors.

The Great Blue Hole is located near the center of Lighthouse Reef, a small reef island about 100 kilometres from Belize City.

the warhead separates a few dozen kilometres away and then accelerates from almost the speed of sound to about three times as fast.

At its low point, the Tonle Sap has an area of 2, 700 square kilometres (1, 000 square miles), much of it just a metre deep.

Oxygen-deprived "dead zones" already exist in the oceans, including an area of thousands of square kilometres in the Gulf of Mexico.

He's really got strong legs to be able to walk 50 kilometres a day.

He works in a factory about ten kilometres from his home.

How does the monarch butterfly travel thousands of kilometres on its yearly migration?

Estremoz, 200 kilometres east of Lisbon, is in a region where the siesta enjoys a traditional popularity.

Also included in the find were scraping tools made of rare obsidian found on West Fergusson Island, 500 kilometres to the east.

By the beginning of the 1708 campaign season he was at Borisov on the Berezina, some 250 kilometres west of Smolensk, with 35, 000 men.

She describes what happened in a string of villages along the rudimentary road south from Goma towards Bukavu, 120 kilometres away.

"Only 550 kilometres are in very good condition -- that is, the wall has a structure, with towers still intact, " he said.

Some of Io's eruptions are violent enough to hurl giant plumes of gas and dust 500 kilometres into space.

Drones are unmanned aircraft, often controlled from a hub located thousands of kilometres away.

A small community of Nenets hunters live nearby; otherwise there's nobody for a hundred kilometres.

He returned home for thousands of kilometres to the north a three stream university, read journalism.

Once captured, the emissions will be 'injected' two kilometres underground, in what once was a natural gas reservoir.

As the Himalayas extend several thousand kilometres from the west to the east, the climate conditions are quite different.

After a few kilometres, Sam came to an intersection with a stop sign.

More than 1000 kilometres to the east in central Java, Mount Merapi's eruption killed at least 30 people.

Four decades ago, the Nairobi slum of Kibera, barely two kilometres (a mile) from the leafy charm of the city centre, hardly existed.

The famous Tanzania-Zambia Railway from here, thousands of kilometres, leading to Zambia.

What would be the point of knowing how many kilometres there are between Guiyang and, say, Sanjiang?

In the first race I was about four kilometres, even five kilometres per hour down on Kimi down the straight.

Luckily the 1989 earthquake did not happen in the centre of town but about 50 kilometres away .

Some 100m years ago, it was created when a smaller cluster smashed into a larger one at about 5, 000 kilometres per second.

Shortly after the blast, the Japanese authorities extended the evacuation zone around the plant to 20 kilometres.

Working at depths of more than five kilometres will take the UK's deep-diving vehicles close to their limits.

Until now, only single-celled organisms, like bacteria and fungi, have been recovered from kilometres beneath the Earth's crust.

With a combined land area of 1, 049 square kilometres (405 sq mi), the Marquesas are among the largest island groups of French Polynesia.

In theory, this sea glider could travel for thousands of kilometres on voyages that could last for years.

Even fragments a few centimetres in width are a hazard because they travel at many thousands of kilometres per hour.

Hurricanes spin in an anti-clockwise direction and they have winds of at least 120 kilometres per hour.

Add stamina, too - players have been known to cover more than six kilometres in a single match.

A coronal mass ejection can carry a billion tons of solar material into space at over a million kilometres per hour.

Beyond the photosphere in the chromosphere and the extremely rarified corona, which extends millions of kilometres into space.

I was in La Serena, a city located about 700 kilometres from Concepcion, but still, it was the worst thing I've felt.

Meanwhile, hundreds of millions of kilometres away, another NASA spacecraft was approaching its destination.

Word came that the key school would be removed to the seaside which is 20 kilometres away from the city center in the near future.

Lake Como is the third largest lake in Italy, covering some 146 square kilometres in a sort of Y shape.

The beam will be aimed at a collector on the other side of the hangar, rather than several kilometres away.

Homes and communities have been destroyed even several kilometres from the coastline.

On the most violent day, 27 August, there were four enormous explosions, audible up to 4000 kilometres away.

Three large pipes have been run five kilometres (three miles) into Lake Ontario, to a depth of 83 metres.

About 1000 kilometres off Ecuador on an island in the Galapagos Islands people can see huge green turtles more than one metre long.

Around ten kilometres from Mycenae we come across the ruins of ancient Corinth.

It did not fly very fast: only at 48 kilometres per hour.

Even when it is dark or dusty in Iraq, a US soldier can see a man blink his eyes from 2 kilometres away.

The Changjiang River runs across China from west to east for thousands of kilometres.

This mountain measures five kilometres from sea bed to peak, and is surrounded by Shiva's crater rim.

If you look at the stats, some of the players have covered two kilometres more than they normally would.

Troposphere the lowest level in the atmosphere, close to the Earth's surface, the thickness of approximately 10-20 kilometres.

Tiny particles that escape from the corona give rise to solar wind, which streams through space at hundreds of kilometres per second.

The new centre will try to develop and improve the resolution down to five square kilometres.

The epicentre of the most lethal and destructive earthquake in Italy for almost 30 years lay a few kilometres outside the city.

The wine is brewed in mountain caves a few hundred kilometres away where the water is ideal.

Lajamanu sits on the edge of the Tanami Desert, hundreds of kilometres from Lake Argyle and Lake Elliott and even further from the coast.

when constrained by conditions, it shall not be less than 8 kilometres.

Located in Germany, the roller coaster train travels through a course of 1. 2 kilometres long with seven periods of weightlessness.

The immediate vicinity of the plant, out to 20 kilometres, has been evacuated.

Independent tests on Prius cars have shown that they could travel no more than a paltry 15 kilometres a day on solar power alone.

The car factory at Viana, about 30 kilometres east of Luanda, is a sign of energy-hungry China's growing presence and influence in Africa.

The total battlefield, a sandy spar between a deep lagoon and the Indian Ocean, is now around 6. 5 square kilometres (2. 5 square miles).

And whereas Wi-Fi signals peter out after 100 metres or so, their white-space equivalents could have ranges of several kilometres.

While this was going on, there were encouraging signs as route 21 was extended for several kilometres into the north of the City.

For the first few hundred kilometres of the journey, the scenery was very colourful. There were fields and the soil was dark red.

Each year, the entire fleet logs 558 million kilometres, nearly 4 times to the distance from the earth to the sun.

His team-mate has thousands of kilometres in this car, and he has nothing.

Consumption is higher, at about 4, 500 cubic kilometres a year, of which agriculture takes about 70%.

The helicopter landed some time later at Brignoles, 38 kilometres north-east of Toulon, France on the Mediterranean coast.

The centre of the earthquake was in a small town about 150 kilometres north of London.

The train was going at the rate of 95 kilometres an hour.

We took a bus to Yangxin County but got a surprise to know that it was still certiain decades kilometres to Xiandao River yet.

About 300 Turkish troops move several kilometres into northern Iraq, local officials say, stepping up pressure on Kurdish PKK rebels there.

Israeli forces who boarded it about 30 kilometres off the coast said they faced no resistance.

Even before the 1900 expo, there had been proposals for a citywide system 17 kilometres long.

The soldier trudged several kilometres or so through the deep untrodden snow.

At 1700 the seventh of June the Royal Ulster Rifles was ordered to move up towards Cambes, a small village about ten kilometres inland.

the Defence Housing Authority is privatizing 14 kilometres of beach for elite hotels, condominiums , marinas and golf courses.

Another seven people were killed in Tonga, several hundred kilometres farther south.

And no anticipation of reaching a new world more than fifty million kilometres away.

Such "supervolcanoes" would include eruptions that release more than 1000 cubic kilometres of material.

In such conditions, the women were making good progress if they covered fourteen or fifteen kilometres a day.

The spill has affected about 40 square kilometres and will have long-term repercussions, say environmentalists.

Shot in October, it shows a blue half Earth, hanging in a black sky below a silver moon, 142 million kilometres away.

In three days they went a hundred and eighty kilometres and reached the Five Fingers.

The first phase of the Beijing Development Area covers 15 square kilometres. It has been well planned.

Straight lines, many kilometres long; figures hundreds of metres in length and breadth.

Singapore is among the 20 smallest countries in the world, with a total land area of only 682. 7 Square kilometres.

The train runs at fifty kilometres an hwe.

The iceberg that eventually calves from the breaking ice shelf will cover around 880 square kilometres, project scientists said.

We were astounded how this tiny feature was influencing the river 40 kilometres downstream.

With 16 million people living on an area of 41 thousand square kilometres the Netherlands is efficient and organised.

The bridge is 36 kilometres long; it has six lanes in both directions and shortens the distance between Shanghai and Ningbo by 120 km.

Changan Street , about , ten kilometres , sixty metres.

They also found out that bees fly a maximum distance of 3. 2 kilometres between their hive and a feeding place.

The hotel is just 500 metres from the city centre and about 3 kilometres from the Marseille Saint Charles Train Station.

All three cases belong to one extended family in Gharbiyah province, 80 kilometres northwest of the capital city, Cairo.

We're twenty kilometres from town as the crow flies, but nearly thirty by road.

US officials warned nationals living within 80 kilometres (50 miles) of the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant to evacuate or seek shelter.

The earthquake's epicentre was just 15 kilometres from Haiti's capital Port-Au-Prince, home to around 1 million people.

It's about 20 kilometres from the international airport to the hotel, you can take both taxi and bus.

Cities can even be seen clearly from the International Space Station which circles about 400 kilometres above the planet.

In this way, a warning message could be sent 500 kilometres within a few hours.

Surtsey is a volcano island generated by the volcanos during 1963 to 1967, 32 kilometres off the southern coast of Iceland.

It stretches more than 2, 000 kilometres from Western Australia to Queensland, and reaches deep into the red desert around Alice Springs.

He was badly hurt, and was taken to the nearest health centre 15 kilometres away, where he died.

2 Kilometres from the long-distance bus station, take Bus No. 16 to the Large South Gate.

Hundreds of kilometres from the disaster area, restaurants and shops were shut.

the length is measured in meters , kilometres , and centimetres.

The difference is a good five dollars or so for every hundred kilometres covered.

And while Wi-Fi signals peter out after 100 metres (330 feet) or so, their white-space equivalents could have ranges measured in kilometres.

In total, the rally features 11 different special stages each run twice over a competitive distance of 351 kilometres.

Long distance negative winning only eight kilometres from the Shizhushan with production zone close .

Covering just 365 square kilometres and home to 1. 5 million people, Gaza is one of the most densely populated regions in the world.

Millions of kilometres away on Mars, the Viking landers have scooped up some soil and mixed it with carbon-14-labelled nutrients.

can cause serious damage in areas several hundred kilometres across.

IT IS vast, with more than 16 kilometres (10 miles) of conveyor belts and a futuristic control centre.

It's only two hundred and seventy-eight kilometres from Shijiazhuang to Beijing.

It's only two hundred seventy-eight kilometres from Shijiazhuang to Beijing!

We reached 3, 000 kilometres a few days ago; the 2000-mile mark is just ahead.

One breeding female tiger had a home range of about 15 square kilometres.

Svalbard is a group of islands nearly a thousand kilometres north of mainland Norway and about 1120 km from the North Pole.

This flight is now proceeding to Paris at a speed of 1 000 kilometres an hour.

The huge base is almost 100 kilometres north of the state capital of Austin and 80 kilometres south-west of Waco, another major city.

This ash, and it's like two metres thick, in Nebraska is 1600 kilometres or more away from its potential source, so that's an amazing thing.

Within an hour after the earthquake , the smoke of San Francisco's fires could be seen a 160 kilometres away.

Countless meteoroids will be sent hurtling into the Earth's atmosphere at 71 kilometres a second.

In addition, the Vavilov seamount, around 200 kilometres north-west of Marsili, is made of similarly porous material.

The six million square kilometres of the Greater Horn of Africa are home to about 200 million people.

Within an hour after the earthquake, the smoke of San Francisco's fires could be seen 160 kilometres away.

He was making the trip to assess the impact of climate change on the region, which sits 1200 kilometres from the North Pole.

Consequently, the satellite would lie tens of millions of kilometres from the Earth.

The train is go at the speed of 200 kilometres an hwe.

She saw that the Island of Komodo is small: no more than 280 square kilometres.

Atlas, the flatter of the two, has a diameter of only 18 kilometres from pole to pole, but is almost 40 kilometres across its waist.

In mid-afternoon on March 11th a massive earthquake erupted, 24 kilometres (15 miles) down, off the north-east coast of Japan's main island.

Most famously, Bingzhongluo boasts the Nu River Gorge, 320 kilometres long and often dubbed the "Grand Canyon of the east" .

six kilometres away from our university .

a few kilometres of new roads.

Drive an hour, and you are at Jakkalsfontein Nature Reserve ( "Five kilometres of pure Atlantic beach front, huge sunsets" ).

Under Nazi occupation the Jews of Warsaw were herded into the city ghetto: four square kilometres for around 400, 000 souls.

A jet stream is a narrow band of strong winds several kilometres above ground.

Worse still, I had no money, so I had to walk home, covering as much as 5 kilometres.

On the first day, we took ahelicopter tour over the rock, and I was surprised at how big it was: 3. 6 kilometres long and 348 metres high.

The island is only 4 square kilometres in area .

The rebel fighters have now captured Bin Jawad, a small settlement about 150 kilometres from Sirte.

These winds can transport large amounts of water vapour over hundreds of kilometres.

the distance in kilometres from start to finish over max . 3 turn points will always be scored with a factor of 1 . 5 . per kilometre.

Navigation also stopped because the water moved many kilometres away from the main local ports.

In the Calton area of Glasgow life expectancy at birth for men is 54 years, while in Lenzie, a few kilometres away, it is 82.

Such indistinct moon night, 4 persons got into Eskimo's car, straight to the Chaohe dike out of 11 kilometres away.

It is quite near us in space. It is only 380, 000 kilometres away.

It's less than twenty kilometres.

Racing cars go very fast. On straight parts of a track. they can go at over 300 kilometres per hour.

Spread over ten square kilometres (four square miles), it is the biggest integrated chemical site in the world.

After the first two days, eggless females may be seen crossing plateau roads, kilometres from the shore.

Wenzhou Sanhe Refrigeration Equipment Co. , LTD. is about 3 kilometres from the airport located in No. 635, Airport Road, Wenzhou, China.

It's two thousand six hundred kilometres by train from Kunming to Beijing.

They said that the surface of the HKH glaciers would decrease from 500, 000 square kilometres to 100, 000 square kilometres.

The city is about two thousand kilometres by train (from here).

His small plot is dry, and he has to walk several kilometres to get water from a neighbouring farm.

Hundreds of kilometres to the east, there are conflicting claims about who now controls the oil port of Ras Lanuf after a day of clashes.

This sonar can scan thousands of square kilometres of the shallow-shelf seas at one time and see schools of fish moving within them.

People in Tokyo 370 kilometres away poured out of buildings as high-rises swayed.

The Yangtze three gorges is a grand canyon, landscape wu gorge, by quyang gorge, xiling, 193 kilometres, as China's top 10 scenic spots.

Following his discovery many islanders travelled 3500 kilometres by sea in their narrow boats to this new country between 1100 and 1350 .