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It comes to rest in a distance d metres.
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In the past 30 years, no human being has set foot on another world or ventured farther up into space than 386 miles, roughly the distance from Washington, D.
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It's still not clear at what distance the exchange was intercepted -- while the passive ISO 14443 tag is spec'd with a read distance of only 2-milimeters you'll find claims of reads at several meters.
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Thanks to spotty Wi-Fi coverage, we'd go a short distance, talking naturally, then halt as the robot lost signal, or veered off.
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But it also exposes them to people who they'd rather keep at a distance.
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Carol could hear Amanda's truck from some distance, and if she could, she'd take off up the hill.
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His inspection of her activity turned up a bunch of nude photos she'd been exchanging with her long-distance boyfriend.
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He wisely kept his distance from the bicamerale, the parliamentary commission chaired by Massimo D'Alema, the leader of the (ex-communist) Democratic Party of the Left, which took half a year to produce a tepid plan to revise Italy's constitution.
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If it were a different sport I'd have been finished years ago, but experience and tenacity are important in long-distance sailing and that doesn't necessarily come with being young.
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As we drove through the Holland Tunnel and began to distance ourselves from the city, I jammed in the first of the compiled rap tapes I'd made, and the boombox sounded superb.
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At least they thought they were alone until they got to school, and a friend who'd passed them in a cab asked why Lucy's mother was following them at a safe distance.
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