Sentence examples for of a kilometer from inspiring English sources

The pack later passed over two similar bumps in the road, the Wormeldange, a mere eight-tenths of a kilometer with a grade of 9.5percentt, and the Hostert, 1.8 kilometers with a grade of 6.9percentt.

Dr. Jewitt and Mr. Sheppard, for instance, are trying to find more Jovian satellites -- Mr. Sheppard thinks there are probably 100 of a kilometer in diameter or larger -- and want to search for even fainter, and thus smaller, objects.

In the weak gravity, it reached a height of a kilometer and may have flown laterally another kilometer.

They say that at the range of a kilometer, a normal bullet might be off by almost 10 yards, while this guided bullet would get within 8 inches.

This provided twice daily positions, which revealed that the float was swirling clockwise with the plume at a tenth of a kilometer per hour.

The expectation, therefore, would be that continental breakup of thickened arc type crust might often lead to significant degrees of lower crustal flow and to the generation of subsidence anomalies on the order of a kilometer or more.

"It's not just a case of a kilometer-long mineralized zone [as first thought].

The objective of the Baikal Project is the creation of a kilometer-scale high-energy neutrino observatory: the Gigaton Volume Detector (GVD) in Lake Baikal.

The models were evaluated with data collected downwind of a kilometer-long barrier next to the I-215 freeway running next to the University of California campus in Riverside.

Evidence that the impact of a kilometers-wide asteroid ravaged Earth's ecosystems and wiped out the dinosaurs millions of years ago is now stronger than ever.

These may also be compared with galactic hydroxyl masers, which typically have linewidths of order a kilometer per second or narrower, and are spread over a velocity of a few to tens of kilometers per second.