yds.
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Each will weigh 330 lbs., stand 4 ft. high and cover 100 yds. in a day.
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Mills gives me a cue to flick the two joysticks that make my deer's head swivel and her tail twitch from 50 yds. away.
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They had got to within 40 yds. of his men.
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Dennis Dougherty, GM's man in charge of manufacturing, is watching the process apprehensively from 50 yds. away.
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The ground for match play measures 35 yds. by 28 yds., and should be carefully marked out with white lines.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 7 "Crocoite" to "Cuba" by Various
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