Before long, I'm stuck in a traffic jam stretching for more than a kilometre.
Its two satellites, flying half a kilometre apart, will communicate with one another using laser telemetry.
By next year it should be able to make cables a third of a kilometre long.
State television shows visibility of less than a kilometre in northern Shijiazhuang and other areas.
For the wave shapes to match, the quakes must have taken place less than a kilometre apart.
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The line makes a kilometre of paper every minute, runs non-stop and requires only 14 workers per shift.
Less than a kilometre away there was a Jewish settlement - I don't know what its name was.
For his rockets (their longest range so far is about a kilometre) he uses propellants, also from fertiliser.
The launchers can be up to a kilometre away from the radar and control hub, linked by microwave signals.
That is equivalent to having been about three-quarters of a kilometre from the epicentre of the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima.
Astronomers calculated recently that there are nearly 1, 000 asteroids at least a kilometre (0.6 miles) wide which cross the Earth's path.
The compound in Abbottabad is about a kilometre from the Pakistan Military Academy - the country's equivalent of West Point or Sandhurst.
We were taught that everyone over there, just a kilometre away on the other side of the border, was bad, an enemy.
My eldest daughter, Sivilay, who is seven years old, has to collect water from our neighbour's well which is half a kilometre away.
The current rover location, a small depression known as "Yellowknife Bay", lies about half a kilometre from the point where Curiosity touched down.
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They lie in a small depression referred to as Yellowknife Bay, about half a kilometre from the robot's point of touchdown last year.
At that time, fuel duty would be cut as well and road charging introduced at 8p a kilometre for motorways and trunk road.
Sgt Paul McMellon told the hearing he was on a control point about a kilometre away from the minefield when the tragedy happened.
He fretted about the chance of another disaster on earth, noting that something a kilometre across could kill a quarter of the human race.
Just over a kilometre away, Mr Odinga's supporters - bedecked in his orange party colours - filled the Nyayo national stadium to hear him promise victory.
The Serious Organised Crime and Police Act said Mr Haw had to give six days' notice, if you please, of any demonstration within a kilometre of Parliament.
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Never mind that her route lay across more than six kilometres of choppy tidal water and Ms Sherr had not swum more than a kilometre in decades.
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Only a kilometre away from the hotel, the sinuous metal banisters of the Gudbrandsjuvet viewing platform were designed by the same architect as the hotel, Jensen and Skodvin.
Filling a typical fuel tank of 75 litres about 20 American gallons with hydrogen at room temperature and pressure will take a hydrogen-powered car only about a kilometre or so.
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She stays in Hanumant colony, a residential area barely half a kilometre away from the palace, where Ms Hurley and her new husband will get married Indian-style on Friday evening.
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To take one example, a kilometre from the Bagram airbase, and just off the main road, a crowd gathered recently as the bodies of three Afghan soldiers were carefully dragged clear.
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Less than a kilometre away on Nandidurga Road, the Nandi Valley Winery also offers tours and tastings and has rooms available for vinophiles who are thirsty enough for more than a day trip.
Better lenses help paparazzi take pictures such of those of the duchess, who is reckoned to have been photographed from around a kilometre away, and digital technology helps them get the product to the customer.
Each one is knitting a message or epitaph to their loved one the size of an A4 sheet of page which will form part of an enormous scarf which, it is hoped, will reach a kilometre in length.
To demonstrate how they would disperse the sulfur dioxide, they had planned to float a balloon over Norfolk, at an altitude of a kilometre, and send a hundred and fifty litres of water into the air through a hose.
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