6 sentences with 'kilometres'
Example sentences and phrases with the word kilometres and other words derived from it.
• « I am in the Healesville Biological Reserve, 65 kilometres east of Melbourne, Australia, and this is my first encounter with the world's largest carnivorous marsupial, also known as the sarcophagus, the Tasmanian Devil. »
• « Tools made from Çatal Höyük obsidian have been discovered by archaeologists hundreds of kilometres away from Çatal Höyük itself; therefore, it is clear that this settlement was already part of long-distance trade networks, exchanging obsidian for other goods with other cities and towns. »
• « The Sinai Peninsula, which divides Egypt from present-day Palestine and Israel, is about 120 kilometres of desert. »
• « Using gravity alone, the Romans could transport water dozens of kilometres, not only in Rome but in other great cities of the Empire. »
• « The European population centres were obviously hundreds or thousands of kilometres away and the local people were mostly Jews and Muslims who detested the cruel invaders. »
• « With cheap and fast railways and steamship transport, not only could food travel hundreds or even thousands of kilometres from where it was grown or caught to where it was consumed, but the daily diet itself underwent profound changes. »