Sentence examples similar to kilometres large from inspiring English sources

Arkansas is 53,179 square miles (137,732 square kilometres), larger by land mass than New York state and far bigger than Pennsylvania.

For example, on a spatial scale of a few to tens of kilometres, larger sensible heat flux caused by reduced transpiration could cause a decrease or even increase in cloud formation (D'Almeida et al. 2007; Knox et al. 2011), leading to modified radiation and thus altered surface energy balance, altered evapotranspiration and also altered stomatal conductance (effect 2.1 in Fig.  2).

Contact aureoles the surrounding zones of rock that become altered or metamorphosed vary in thickness from several centimetres (around tabular bodies such as dikes and thin sills) to several kilometres (around large granitic intrusions).

Gravitation, though negligible at the microcosmic level, begins to predominate with objects on the order of magnitude of a hundred kilometres, like large asteroids; it holds together the moon, the earth, the solar system, the stars, clusters of stars within galaxies, and the galaxies themselves.

Volcanoes can produce far-reaching hazards that extend distances of tens or hundreds of kilometres in large eruptions, or in certain conditions for smaller eruptions.

White dwarf binaries or paired black holes at the centres of galaxies would produce gravitational waves measured in millions of kilometres, impossibly large for detectors built on Earth.

In Bihar and Uttar Pradesh there are thousands of 'ahars' covering a total of more than 800 000 ha. Low earth bunds are built to retain run-off during the monsoon and when used on very gentle slopes, sometimes as low as 0.01percentt, water stored to a depth of one metre will throw back several kilometres, so large areas of land are covered.

Basically, Pacaya-Samiria becomes an inland sea of 20,000 square kilometres - the largest flooded forest in western Amazonia - full of fish food.

The phenomenon was first observed on a canal near Edinburgh in 1834 by a Scottish engineer named Scott Russell; he later wrote a graphic account of following on horseback, for well over a kilometre, a "large solitary elevation... which continued its course along the channel apparently without change of form".

Smaller flocks of 8 30 birds stay within an area of around 260 square kilometres, while larger flocks of up to 300 birds may travel hundreds of kilometres seeking food.

For every NEO a kilometre or larger in size, there are thousands more as small as about 100 metres (328 feet).