Complex sentence: Akaroa is 84 kilometres by road from Christchurch, and is the terminus of State Highway 75 and at the March 2001 New Zealand census of population and dwellings, the permanent population was 576, a decrease of 69 since 1996.
Split into simpler sentences: Akaroa is 84 km by road from Christchurch and is the terminus of State Highway 75. At the March 2001 New Zealand census of population and dwellings, the permanent population was 576, a decrease of 69 since 1996.