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Discover Ludwig"a stone's throw away" is a correct and commonly used phrase in written English
It means a short distance away, typically within throwing range. Example: The beach was just a stone's throw away from our hotel, making it the perfect spot for a morning walk.
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A stone's throw away is the No. 2 suspect, Target.
A stone's throw away, in a freezing aircraft hangar, was Aamer.
A stone's throw away, in neighboring Camden, Walt Whitman, the poet of democracy and manly adhesiveness, spent his golden years.
A stone's throw away are vast fields where sugar cane is harvested by machines and by hand.
A stone's throw away is St-Viateur Bagel Café (1127 avenue du Mont-Royal), famous for hand-rolled bagels.
A stone's throw away, a canal threatened to spill over a sea wall as a manatee frolicked by a small bridge.
Just a stone's throw away from the A96 near Inverurie, there's a place called Pitscurry.
It's easy to get lost in nature just a stone's throw away from the city.
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A stone's-throw away is a great wooden door, lacquered dark with varnish, a fluted arch above it providing shade.
A Burmese outpost is a stone's-throw away, across the paddy-field below, where Burmese labourers are frantically working to build a border fence.
Being only a stone's-throw away from the arrival terminal means that patients have only a five-minute drive to the hospital for their care.
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