Sentence examples for kilometre zero from inspiring English sources

In Chongqing, an inland city of eight million, and "kilometre zero" of a new international railway, Monteleone rode a ferry on the Yangtze River, in order to capture a panorama of the city.

Naples may be square one of the pizza world, writes Young, but Caiazzo, a hilltop town some 30 miles north, has emerged as its ground zero or rather its kilometre zero.

I spent afternoons with Sylvia in the park behind Notre Dame dreaming of Paris even though I was in Paris, waiting for George to come back to 37 rue de la Bûcherie, kilometre zero.

At the anti-corruption watchdog, perhaps fittingly located at Guinea's "kilometre zero" – the point from which all distances are measured – the director, François Falcone, admits a struggle to balance attracting foreign investment and protecting national interests.

The acclaimed Jim Jarmusch film Broken Flowers is a strong second favourite, while the movie with the longest odds is the Kurdish drama Kilometre Zero. Malcolm knows Cannes as well as anyone, but admits that nobody can predict the direction of the prizes with any real accuracy.

And after the ninth Tour stage victory of his career, Greipel said: "The team supported me from kilometre zero, they kept me out of the wind and in the front group.

He lacks the dispassionate calm of the Kilometre Nine imam.

Its population density was 2.1 persons per square kilometre, one of the lowest ratios in the world.

Ten kilometres: Six miles three hundred and seventy-six yards.

It is one giant hole: 500 metres deep and almost five kilometres (three miles) long.

In 2009 Shell moved a jacket in the Gulf of Mexico ten kilometres (six miles) away.