yds.
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The low-cost walkie-talkies of old, which transmitted only 100 yds. or so, were basically noisy toys.
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The last was an odd choice, except for the fact that it was just 100 yds. from Arafat's office.
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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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But when Whitsett jumped on, the chopper teetered at its weight threshold, landing in a citrus grove 100 yds. away.
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When the puck is driven off the rink or behind the goal, or a foul has been made behind the goal, it is faced 5 yds. inside the rink.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" by Various
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