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Discover LudwigThe phrase "across a distance" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that occurs or is experienced over a physical or metaphorical space between two points.
Example: "The message was transmitted across a distance of thousands of miles."
Alternatives: "over a distance" or "through a distance".
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The BECs were moved across a distance of 0.8 mm from the surface of the chip.
That experiment was apparently the first use of radio waves across a distance.
A general statement of open-system thermodynamics is that nature abhors a gradient, a difference across a distance.
Usually this is 10 20 percent of the total voltage across a distance equal to the diameter of the magnetosphere.
That is exactly what photographs of the night sky provide: everything there is, across a distance of 13 billion light years, on a plate.
It will whisk passengers across a distance equal to a trip between New York and Atlanta in less than five hours.
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He would build a wooden boat and row the beer across Delaware Bay — a distance of eighteen nautical miles.
Only 4km wide, the core of the DMZ extends all the way across Korea – a distance of 248 km.
So opposed in vision so rooted in conviction Across so close a distance Before so many eyes.
When Dylan Ebdus first spotted the fourth, Arthur Lomb, it was at a distance, across the schoolyard.
Thomas Cole's sweeping "View of Boston" (around 1837) gives a hint of the city at a distance across a pastoral landscape.
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