• The study also showed that the income of the poorest population was approaching, in relative terms, the international poverty line over the period: the distance between the income of the poorest and the poverty line was reduced from 6% to 2.3%.

    FORBES: Getting Better To Be Poor In Brazil

  • What if every second line in the country is a cell phone -- and if people do a lot of their long distance calling on the second line?

    FORBES: Cut the cord

  • With just over a minute to go, the Falcons got within striking distance of the goal line.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

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

    CNN: Junior Seau was hurting and didn't know how to say it

  • 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.

    BBC: Cardiff Blues 24-18 Bath

  • When they finally got within striking distance of the Scottish line, Tom Riley drew the Glasgow line before his deft pass sent Blair under the posts for a seven-pointer.

    BBC: Cardiff Blues 27-9 Glasgow

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

    BBC: Home advantage will rule

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

    ECONOMIST: Health indicators

  • Far in the distance, a neat line moves across the horizon, trailing puffs of cloud like a steam train.

    BBC: In Sweden, a long journey home

  • 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.

    UNESCO: L O S S A R Y

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

    ENGADGET: Dutch RFID e-passport cracked -- US next?

  • Ireland gathered but O'Gara was unable to get much distance on his touch-finder and Wales launched another series of forays from the line-out.

    BBC: Wales 19-13 Ireland

  • An unruly line of what looked like 1, 000 travelers waited between crowd-control ropes, snaking off into the distance.

    WSJ: Diana Abu-Jaber on Traveling with a Toddler | Traveler's Tale

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