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  • The gear-check booth is located a safe distance from the finish line.

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  • But the hosts used their pack to good advantage and drove to within touching distance of the Bath line and forced a close-range scrum.

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  • Thus a perfectly symmetrical face, with eyes, lips and nostrils exactly the same distance from the central line, would earn a score of zero.

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  • This is important 'cause the greater the read distance in say, the line at airport immigration control, the greater the chance of abuse.

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  • Each ran a different distance, and they met at the finish line.

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  • Stephen Kelly needed to clear off the line after Taylor failed to gain distance on his punch, while Tuncay headed straight at the keeper when a yard either side would have given his team an equaliser.

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  • It moved the free safety, a position usually 18 yards away from the line of scrimmage, to just half that distance.

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  • If there were no correlation between prosperity and distance from the equator, we would expect the green line to be centered at zero with random oscillations due to noise in the data.

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  • You will need to consider issues such as how your line managers will motivate and manage their teams from a distance.

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  • Despite some internal unrest within the team and dissatisfaction with the coaching line-up in 1998, they came within touching distance of gold.

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  • O'Gara was also off-target with a long-distance effort and then David Wallace appeared to have crossed the Edinburgh line but no try was given.

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  • Setback: prescribed distance landward of a coastal feature (e.g. the line of permanent vegetation), within which all or certain types of development are prohibited.

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  • Thus, despite their traditional party-line positions on social issues, Mr Obama's comfort with religion and Mr McCain's distance from it have clearly shaken up religious politics in 2008.

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