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Examples

  • As for my modest effort: yes it was 10 Kilometres, at an average of 16.4 k/hr.

    10K update and two different views toward wheelchair users, me and my 10K competition Elizabeth McClung 2008

  • So let's hear what you think about Neil Kinnock's suggestion of switching over the Kilometres ...

    New Poll on Switching from Miles to Kilometres 2006

  • The students of RV Engineering college, Bangalore - India have designed a three wheeler car that gives a mileage of 85 Kilometres per litre of petrol.

    3 Wheeler Car "Garuda" - Super Mileage of 85 KMPL 2008

  • Kilometres are easy, especially if you don't convert, just drive.

    metric 2005

  • Kilometres per hour is even easier, once you're driving a Canadian car with the KpH more prominent in the dashboard.

    metric 2005

  • The Tale featureth 3 dazed Youths who look like Monsieur Metro when he hath received his Income Tax Form or run 5 miles err … 12 Kilometres a le Gym but

    Mr Brains’s Faggot Family of Doodys « raincoaster 2007

  • A Labour and Lib-Dem MP recently joined forces during a debate in the House of Commons and called for all speed limits on British roads to be read as Kilometres/hour instead of miles/hour so that motorists will drive on motorways at 70 km/hr 43 mph instead of 70mph.

    Archive 2007-01-01 Peter Troy 2007

  • It is not necessary to invoke the searing Eminem movie 13.54 kilometres, nor the awe-inspiring jazz trumpeting of Kilometres Davis, nor the fine Proclaimers' song I'm Gonna Be 804.67 kilometres, to argue that if we were the UK Metric Association, we wouldn't start from here.

    Archive 2006-02-01 Serf 2006

  • Or do they really think that motorists are now so used to buying butter by the 500g that they will adapt to Kilometres like a CAP subsidised Duck Raised indoors of course to water?

    Archive 2006-02-01 Serf 2006

  • Kilometres per hour is even easier, once you're driving a Canadian car with the KpH more prominent in the dashboard.

    Archive 2005-10-01 2005

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