The phrase "a rather long distance" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a significant or considerable length of space between two points.
Example: "The hike to the summit was a rather long distance, taking us several hours to complete."
Alternatives: "a fairly long distance" or "a quite considerable distance".
The issue with Voice Search is that the system can pick up the words "Ok Google" (or words that sound like 'Ok Google') from a rather long distance.
The coal particles with large Stokes number (St>1) disperse very slowly in the jet flow, which realizes the fuel rich/lean combustion in a rather long distance downstream the exit of the nozzle, resulting in low NOx emissions.
Filter II is based on the following observation: in high GC genomes, true FS is separated by a rather long distance from a stop codon terminating the upstream ORF.
He was a wonderful, loving father to both the girls, but a rather long-distance one".
Indirect heat integration is preferred when the heat sources and sinks are separated in independent plants with rather long distance.
Even though a strong correlation exists between the HCE number and block length (Spearman's rho correlation coefficient = 0.87, p = 2.2e-16), quite a number of HCE blocks span rather long distances with relatively few HCEs (Figure S7).
In summary, the present study demonstrates that NPs in colloidal suspensions can be transported in the environment through evaporation to rather long distances and can reach biological targets.
Since Oridian is an international ad network that helps US sites monetize international traffic, I can't imagine they'll be focusing on your cross town calls, but rather the long distance international ones a VOIP provider effectively delivers for local calling rates (you still have to pay for minutes from your telco).
In one scheme, MCI signed contracts with small local phone companies that would receive the calls, change the billing codes to make it appear that they were local rather than long distance, and complete them, according to the statement.
Therefore the repeated high taxonomic similarity between the dominant vent species and the dominant control sediment species, suggests that local colonization and adaptation, rather than long distance dispersal seeds the vent fauna [30], [37], [39].
Nematode genera occuring at vents and on bare basalt are also known from deep-sea plains, suggesting local adaptation rather than long distance distribution of nematodes (for details see [68]).
