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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a distance equivalent to" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when comparing or describing a specific measurement or distance in relation to another reference point.
Example: "The satellite orbits at a distance equivalent to that of the moon from Earth."
Alternatives: "a distance comparable to" or "a distance similar to".
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He covered 314 miles in all, a distance equivalent to two marathons per day.
It is an archipelago that lies across the Equator and spans a distance equivalent to one-eighth of Earth's circumference.
Four geophone nodes were installed within boreholes, to avoid surface seismic noise, on a diamond grid, separated by a distance equivalent to the depth of the glacier.
A bee would need to travel a distance equivalent to three times the circumference of the earth to produce an ordinary jar of honey.
The extended network of routes enables the Metro to cover 600,000 miles each day, a distance equivalent to circulating the earth ten times.
"It involved Gary dressed in a head-to-toe yeti costume running up and down the studio for a distance equivalent to the height of Everest whilst Greg delivered an essay on the human condition".
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Whatever this companion was, it seemed to orbit at a vast distance, equivalent to our Kuiper belt objects.
The proposal put forward a maximum distance equivalent to 50% of the grand prix distance for the prime tyre and 30% for the option.
The station is 4,200 meters deep –about 2.6 miles, a vertical distance equivalent to the average morning jog around the neighborhood — making moorings, and everything else, difficult.
As input data for Circos, the physical positions of markers on the Malus genome were divided by 4 × 105 to obtain a genetic distance equivalent to marker linkage values of the Malus consensus map [ 29].
Fans of Google's augmented reality game Ingress have walked more than 126,000,000 kilometers while playing over the last two years --a distonce equivalent to more than 3,000 trips around the globe, or a little under halfway the distance from Earth to Mars.
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