Which preposition to use with kilometres
At nightfall we were still eight or nine kilometres from Latisana.
From the railhead at Deir el Belah to the mouth of the wadi Ghuzze, and from that point along the line of the wadi to various places behind the line held by us, we had a total length of 21 kilometres of light railway.
Since we left Kothan we have covered a hundred and fifty kilometres in four hours.
All fortifications included in a line traced fifty kilometres to the east of the Rhine are to be destroyed, and on no account may German troops cross the said line.
Day came; our train ran the four hundred kilometres between Tchertchen and Tcharkalyk, while the sun caressed with its rays the immense plain, glittering in its saline efflorescences.
Went few kilometres by train, but became so ill had to be taken off for two days, then sent to Budapest.
"About six kilometres to Nanking junction, and about five kilometres beyond that.
Everything ends in this world below, even a voyage of six thousand kilometres on the Grand Transasiatic; and after a run of thirteen days, hour after hour, our train stopped at the gates of the capital of the Celestial Empire.
" "Out there" one was glad to sleep three hours on the hard ground, or once in a month of Sundays on a wisp of straw, glad to turn out at three o'clock in the morning and warm up by marching thirty kilometres with a knapsack on one's back, sweating freely for eight or ten hours at a time....
He also found that a couple of kilometres below there was another stretch of rapids, and following them on the left-hand bank to the foot he found that they were worse than the ones we had just passed, and impassable for canoes on this left-hand side.
One morning while the canoes were being built Kermit and I walked a few kilometres down the river and surveyed the next rapids below.
We had run nearly eight hundred kilometres during the sixty days we had spent in the canoes.
I crept two kilometres like that until I found a dressing-station.
"We were hardly two kilometres out of Lindau when we were stopped by a barricade of hay-wagons.
This second day we made sixteen and a half kilometres along the course of the river, and nine kilometres in a straight line almost due north.