Five hundred yards from the beach, a gloved hand choked the outboard motor.

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Five hundred yards from the lawyers, a group of heavily bearded men wearing checked Arab kaffiyehs and black turbans were engaged in their own protest.

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This turned out to be a distance of twenty-six miles three hundred and eighty-five yards.

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And an Amish community in Pennsylvania tore down the West Nickel Mines Amish School and built a new school a few hundred yards away after a gunman killed five girls there in 2006.

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