For example, poor people stay in drought-hit villages when the city is just a bus ride away.

ECONOMIST: Free exchange

He is going to do Engineering, and even though it is only a bus ride away, I know that I will lose him when he goes.

NEWYORKER: Natalie

Dawn decided to appeal to her second choice school, Cheam High School, which is a bus ride away but the school Catherine most wanted to attend because many of her friends had a place.

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