noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
30 mile/360 kilometre/2 hour etc round trip
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A coachload of supporters made the 700-mile round trip to South Devon.
come 50/100 etc miles/kilometres
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Some of the birds have come thousands of miles to winter here.
miles/kilometres an hour (= used in speeds )
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The speed limit is 65 miles an hour.
miles/kilometres per hour (= used for measuring speed )
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a speed limit of 40 miles per hour
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
square
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An array a square kilometre in size should see neutrino sources if there are any, Halzen says.
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The densities per square kilometre of its human and livestock populations are greater than anywhere else in the continent.
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It has more cars per square kilometre than anywhere else in the world.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A basalt flow can advance over a kilometre of flat ground in a matter of hours; an andesite may take months.
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According to the proximity readout, the capsule was only a kilometre or so from contact with the surface of Tarvaras.
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An array a square kilometre in size should see neutrino sources if there are any, Halzen says.
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Figure 1 a shows the altitude profile of energy release in units of Mton high explosive equivalent per kilometre .
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Some have been sighted more than thirty feet in length, cruising almost a kilometre above sea level.
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The kilometre long cutting emerges on to a longer embankment with extensive views over the Tame valley and back towards West Bromwich.
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The levels of report in the Hughes and Cole study were all calculated per kilometre travelled.
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They were now a kilometre from the castle.