They are building undersea pipes to convey oil from thousands miles away.

他们正在修建海底管道以从千里之外输送石油。

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While the internet and social networking sites are helping people connect with each other and breaking social barriers inside Iran, it's also giving Iranians all over the world a connection with one another, and support for each other even from thousands of miles away.

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Facebook allows us to renew contacts with people thousands of miles away, an extraordinary resource for those of us who have lived and worked around the world, and have cherished friends thousands of miles away.

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The last oil elephants are in fact thousands of miles away, in East Africa.

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Voters thousands of miles away struggle to remember why their soldiers are dying there.

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