Sentence examples for km ahead from inspiring English sources

FROM the starting lines of Sunday's London Marathon, the 26.2 miles (42.2 km) ahead will seem an awfully long way.

Strong winds aloft and the development of a strong convection plume led to the transport of firebrands over considerable distances causing the ignition of spotfires up to 33 km ahead of the main fire front.

In extreme cases, the resulting instability may lead to the formation of a squall line of severe thunderstorms and possibly tornadoes parallel to and about 80 km ahead of the surface position of the cold front.

Taking this insight further, suppose lightning strikes two trees, one 60 km ahead of the fixed observer and the other 60 km behind, exactly as the moving observer passes the fixed observer.

There are 110.5 decisive km ahead.

The strong, gusty Bergwinds may throw burning Protea flower heads, or recently also cones of invader pine stands, over distances of more than 4 km ahead of an approaching fire (Geldenhuys 2010).

Sometimes in winter, if the warm air overrides cold air at subfreezing temperatures, severe ice storms may develop more than 100 km (62 miles) ahead of the surface position of the warm front.

Beatty presumed that the German cruisers were the advance screen for Hipper's ships, however those were some 50 km (31 mi) ahead.

The wind driven flames jumped roads and firelines, and burning embers started new fires a mile (1.6 km) or more ahead of the main fires.

Wiggins won the fourth stage of the race, a time trial over a course of 53.5 km, 34 seconds ahead of Martin, his nearest rival, extending his lead over him to 38 seconds.

Sánchez, Rebellin, and Schleck reached the summit of the Badaling climb, with 12.7 km to race, 10 seconds ahead of Rogers and Kolobnev, and 26 seconds ahead of the Evans group.