Or you can interpret the discussion as about the various "kilometer lengths of highway" in which case plural. You can interpret the three references as to "sections" (so for example, the first section discussed is a section 1243 kms long), in which case singular. Regarding the issue asked about in the comment below. It's truly incredible something so simple can get so much press here. Which 1243 km is motorway, 6810 km is national road, and 21098 km Which 1243 km are motorways, 6810 km are national roads, and 21098 km The total length of the public road network is 29151 km, out of Which 1243 km are motorways, 6810 km of national roads and 21098 km of The total length of the public road's network is 29151 km, out of "of" is utterly meaningless, might as well have typed "cat" there. the two "of"s were meant to be "are" (or "is"). The sentence HAS A TRIVIAL ERROR, PERHAPS JUST A TYPO The blue line is kilometres is, the red kilometres are: Here is an Ngram which might give us a vague idea of the relative frequency of kilometres is and kilometres are. Twenty kilos is quite a lot to have to carry around all day.We see this type of singular agreement with all types of plural measure phrases: This is nothing special about kilometre noun phrases. As is the case, for example, with collective nouns, it is how we perceive the subject that matters, not its grammatical number or its plural or singular morphology. This is because we can conceive of 2km as a single distance, or as two individual kilometres. However, when such phrases are the subjects of sentences, we see both singular and plural verb agreement (arguably singular is more frequent). We can see this from the fact that in speech, the word kilometres (or kilometers for American readers) has the plural suffix, 'S', apart from when preceded by the numeral 1: The phrase Xkm is plural in every instance, unless the value of X is exactly 1 (assuming km is the head noun in the noun phrase).
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