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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To encourage him to explore, his trainers built a large slingshot, which sent fish out 50 yds. in all directions.
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On the bridge the replacement captain, Tony Cortese, waved to his predecessor, barely 200 yds. away.
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How could we have flown the entire family 6,000 miles from Denver to meet a woman who was afraid to walk 20 yds. across the street to meet us?
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These occur in a strip of comparatively fine gravel and sand, 150 yds. wide, extending along the shore.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" by Various
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