Sentence examples for kilometres rather from inspiring English sources

The agency has one ranger per 168 square kilometres rather than the recommended one per 25 sq km.

Tyrer, who has been working with the Police Service of Northern Ireland to counteract lasers used in riots using a strip placed on helmet visors, said that it is possible to buy powerful lasers with a range of kilometres rather than a few metres, particularly if the atmospheric conditions are right.

You can describe the length of your road journeys in miles and kilometres rather than in hours and days because the highways are smooth and broad and brightly lit.

Noorali, Luby, & Rahbar, chose the distance in kilometres rather than travel time as an indicator of physical accessibility [ 35].

However, mountain regions in Australia are of a different scale to those most often studied – peaks are separated by tens of kilometres, rather than by hundreds of kilometres, and alpine/sub-alpine habitat is confined to just 700 vertical metres.

Because the values of the constants are quite small, it is common for manufacturers to quote them per kilometre rather than per metre; in the English-speaking world "per mile" can also be used.

Bad weather forced la Real to land at the pilgrims' destination of Santiago de Compostela, 70 kilometres away, rather than in La Coruña.

This is because a tsunami wavelength is typically hundreds of kilometres long rather than the few tens of metres characteristic of storm waves.

The good news is much of this "is still composed of large contiguous areas of at least 10,000 kilometres squares" rather than tiny chunks, which might have been otherwise separated from one another.

Research commissioned by objectors to the 117-mile HS2 line through the Chilterns shows that if trains were limited to 300 kilometres an hour rather than the proposed 360km/h, they could save hundreds of thousands of tonnes of CO2.

In the pilot study, the relatively close agreement in air temperature and humidity between the three outside dataloggers (Fig. 4) suggests that distancing measurements by some tens of kilometres results in rather small differences, and for most purposes it is probably unnecessary to make measurements at closer intervals than 10 km.