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Example sentences for "five kilometres"

  • Five kilometres south of Argeles-sur-Mer is Collioure, the ancient Port Illiberries, the seaport of Elne.

  • This is not remarkable when one considers that the electricity is a home-made product of the power of the swift flowing Aude, which rushes by Axat's dooryards at five kilometres an hour.

  • The Aude, the Orb and the Herault mingle their waters with the Mediterranean here, and on the Montagne d'Agde rises another of those remarkable French lighthouses, this one throwing its light a matter of forty-five kilometres seawards.

  • From Tarascon to Ax-les-Thermes, still in the valley of the Ariege, is twenty-five kilometres of superb roadway.

  • A French authority states that up to twenty to twenty-five kilometres an hour the automobile does little or no harm to the roads, but when they increase to over fifty kilometres an hour they do damage the surface somewhat.

  • The study of the ground completely justifies this view, for it was sufficient for Caesar to make a circuit of fifty miles (or seventy-five kilometres) to turn the mass of mountains which extends from Besancon to Montbeliard.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    five companies; five copies; five divisions; five equal horizontal bands; five feet; five gallons; five grains; five guns; five horizontal; five hundred thousand dollars; five lines; five men; five months; five pairs; five per; five pesos; five petals; five rams; five rupees; five sail; five sous; five thousand; five volumes; five women; heart and; said once