Charlton, though, continued to push and Varney had a 25-yard strike blocked by Michael Hughes while Shevley sent an effort wide from a similar distance.

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Voronin fired just wide from 22 yards and then forced Gordon into a nervous save from a similar distance as Ukraine continued to dominate possession.

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While distance from Africa can explain as much as 85% of the genetic diversity of populations, a similar distance measurement can explain only 19% of the variation in phonemic diversity.

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King's Lynn is also a similar distance to King's Cross station, where tourists will then be able to take a seven-minute transfer to the Olympic Park via a new high-speed train.

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With gestures enabled, viewers can sit at a distance from their phones and motion in a manner similar to a remote control.

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Every year the council turn down appeals from parents in our village for bus places for the children because the distance is less than three miles, we await a similar outcome to our appeal.

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Their spaceship had no windows, and the protocols demanded their communications endured a similar time lag to that encountered by real messages as they travel the vast distance between Earth and Mars.

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At a relatively close distance of 2.5 million light-years, Andromeda is very similar in size to our own Milky Way Galaxy.

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