The phrase "a certain distance of" is not correct in standard written English.
It is typically used to describe an unspecified or approximate distance, but the correct form would be "a certain distance from."
Example: "The house is located at a certain distance from the main road."
Alternatives: "an approximate distance from" or "a specific distance from."
Sidewalk men were sometimes arrested on charges of disorderly conduct; eventually laws were put in place that prohibited scalping within a certain distance of a venue.
Note that the entrance is towards the back of the building, due to an old town ordinance prohibiting bars from being within a certain distance of churches.
Most mall owners have what is known as a radius clause in their agreements with tenants: the tenant cannot own a competing store within a certain distance of the mall.
One possibility: giving every homeowner, business and renter living (or owning a business) within a certain distance of the plants a significant amount of free electricity and gas each month to meet utility needs.
We've agreed that the chuggers can only operate in pairs, they're in designated places within the town centre and they also can't approach within a certain distance of a member of public.
Brands at the Oxfordshire luxury shopping destination are understood to have signed an exclusivity agreement preventing them from opening any other outlet store with a certain distance of the complex.
Asked by a journalist how women could protect themselves, Henriette Reker said: "There's always the possibility of keeping a certain distance of more than an arm's length – that is to say to make sure yourself you don't look to be too close to people who are not known to you, and to whom you don't have a trusting relationship".
These include establishing buffer zones around the clinic – 'floating buffer zones' or 'bubble zones' which prevent protesters coming within a certain distance of staff or patients at clinics; restrictions on photography and recording, blocking entrances or exits, shouting or voice amplification, and disclosing of the identity of anyone entering, leaving, or approaching the clinic".
— After an arrest in the rape of a 6-year-old boy at the city library here late last month, the mayor drafted an ordinance to bar high-risk sex offenders from entering or coming within a certain distance of numerous public places.
Densely populated areas like Manhattan, for example, may not have enough available phone lines for consumers to get D.S.L. Consumers usually must live within a certain distance of a local phone company's switching office -- often, three miles or less -- for the technology to work.
