For all the usual reasons of language, distance and who knows what it is that the foreigners are doing anyway?

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For obvious reasons of language and distance, the people of Japan and Britain do not often loom large in each other's imaginations.

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As a Japanese company, Toyota has historically been all the more motivated to overcome the problems of language and physical distance.

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This dramatically expands the possibilities associated with free online courses because distance and language will no longer be obstacles in testing for knowledge accrued in massive open online courses (or MOOCs).

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They have their own coded language to keep outsiders at a distance.

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Johnny Depp, who has made his name with misfits, outsiders, and untrammelled wackos, now turns his attention to John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester the scourge of seventeenth-century London, and by some distance the wickedest poet in the language.

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Mr O'Maonaigh-Lennon, who teaches English as a foreign language, took about seven hours to complete the distance of 26 miles and 385 yards each day.

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The French language had been used to keep the population as a whole at a distance.

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In our community, we are able to bring distance learning to students who would otherwise not have access to language classes.

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In physics, how you measure time and distance is a matter of your frame of reference, which can be viewed as a language or labeling convention.

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