His workshop is a couple of miles out of Avarua, a pleasant drive along roads lined with flame trees and coconut palms.
The rich oil fields of the Caspian Sea lay over 1, 800 miles to the west, while there were unstable neighbours less than a couple of miles to the south.
He disassembled two entire barns a couple of miles from his boyhood home in Berthierville, Que.
The main site is Kaliakra, a limestone cape extending a couple of miles out to fortress ruins.
Much housing here has been demolished, leaving huge open spaces a couple of miles from the city centre.
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Bowden accompanied the Queen's Dragoons Guards as they pushed within a couple of miles of the city's center Saturday.
To get here, park along the south feeder road, a couple of miles west of Loop 335, and walk the well-worn path.
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That's why Major League Baseball pitchers earn so much more than triple-A players, despite throwing fastballs only a couple of miles an hour faster.
To be trivial, if people do both then we might put the donut shop a couple of miles away from the tobacco store: make it difficult to do both.
So the most innovative stuff I saw in Las Vegas this week were at a "hackathon" at Las Vegas' Palms hotel, a couple of miles from the main convention hall.
By the summer of 1999 MSN was in such lousy shape that Microsoft's Steve Ballmer transferred his office from the main campus to MSN's site a couple of miles away.
"What happened in Long Branch to achieve Pier Village is an atrocity, " says the 53-year-old Mr. MacCloud, who now lives in Tom's River in a ranch-style home a couple of miles from the water.
As we stood at Al Geneina airport waiting to leave a week later I was told just a couple of miles away an armed UNAMID peacekeeping patrol had been ambushed the day before by 60 armed men on horse back.
The raindrops blown a couple of miles west of our ranch would land in creeks that percolated through the Columbia River system into the Pacific, whereas the water in Feely Creek, our creek, was blessed with the task of traveling a thousand miles more, all the way down to the bayous of Louisiana before spilling through the loamy delta into the Gulf of Mexico.
We are a good couple of miles away, but it still makes my innards lurch.
So, I survived another Consumer Electronics Show (CES) and made it out of Vegas with most of my skin, and with the objectivity engendered by a couple of thousand miles of distance and a weekend, I can now render a verdict: there has been some evolution since last year in personal computing.
I, for one, have no interest in hurling down a mountain at speeds in excess of 90 miles-per-hour after having a couple pops, so it comes as something of a surprise to discover that some Olympic skiers are also world-class booze-hounds.
He immediately flew to Dublin, hired a car to drive the couple of hundred miles to Youghal and arrived home just before the doctor appeared.
Dorner had holed up in a flat in Big Bear Lake, a ski resort 80 miles (130km) east of Los Angeles, for six days after he killed a couple and a policeman.
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One of them was Mark Carr, who drove 600 miles from Rocky Ford, Colorado with a couple of chainsaws and his three little children.
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Their modular modern home has space for Mr. Turner's studio, the living space the couple desired and a roof garden from which they can survey miles of London's skyline.
The dot faded to transparent over time, and would redden again only when the other half of the couple clicked on his or her own dot displayed on a computer screen hundreds of miles away.
The couple then took the girls to back to Wales, to their converted farmhouse a few miles outside the town of Buckley in Flintshire.
Exiting onto a dirt road, which wound for several miles through the hills, we ended up in a dusty lot, where a couple of minivans were parked next to an informational tableau.
The couple, who have five children and nine grandchildren, have been clocking up between 30 and 40 miles a week as they prepare for the marathon.
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