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- noun Plural form of
kilogramme .
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Examples
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In the province of Algiers alone, the quantity of tobacco sold will amount to 550,000 kilogrammes, which is nearly three times as much as in 1851, and an equal progression has taken place in the provinces of
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The power of vaporization amounts to 20 kilogrammes of water per hour, while the quantity of coal consumed during the same period amounts to only 4 kilogrammes, which is comparatively little for a boiler of so small a power.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 664, September 22,1888 Various
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"She told me she had lost 11 kilogrammes in one month," he said.
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The average Chinese person, who drank 1.2 kilogrammes (2.6 pounds) of milk a year in 1980 when Deng -- the architect of China's reforms -- was in power, guzzled 26.7 kilos last year, according to the national bureau of statistics.
Milk in China Steve Carper 2008
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"She told me she had lost 11 kilogrammes in one month," he said.
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Aid given to every displaced family includes 25 kilogrammes of rice, six litres of cooking oil, noodles, soy sauce, sugar, salt, coffee and two bars of soap.
Mindanao's Forgotten Refugees IWPR 2009
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"She told me she had lost 11 kilogrammes in one month," he said.
Iran 'US Spy' Cases Remain After Saberi Release The Huffington Post News Team 2009
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"'The male beast that was shot dead on December 30 near the town of Brusartzi weighed 48 kilogrammes,' Hunting Association chief Mihail Boyadzhiev told AFP Thursday." ...
Archive 2007-01-01 2007
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This zone of water weighs about 1.5 trillion kilogrammes, and the quantity of warmth given off thus corresponds to about 2.5 trillion great calories.
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It has been calculated that the whole atmosphere of the earth weighs 5.27 trillion kilogrammes, and it will require something over 1 trillion great calories to warm the whole of this mass of air 1ºC.
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