mean distance

What is most troubling is our – and I do mean “our” and not “their” – never treating these situations as learning opportunities.

Hilda, trembling at the door, more than half expected Mr. Orgreave to say: "You mean, she's invited herself."

He wanted to tell her that if she called her father, it would mean the end of everything for them, but he withheld this.

Off went the officers again, some distance to the front, and then back again to their men, and got them on a little further.

Distance, the uncertain light, and imagination, magnified it to a high wall; high as the wall of China.

A lateen sail was visible in the direction of Cat Island, and others to the south seemed almost motionless in the far distance.