The word "distances" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it as a noun to refer to the amount of physical space between two objects or locations. Example: The hares ran great distances to escape the fox.
His satellite tags had provided vivid new information of the remarkable distances travelled by these unpredictable predators during their brief lives.
I'm not built for the longer distances but at the same time I like the challenge.
What does change this month is that we gradually increase the number of long distances.
I will jog long distances on coastal paths in preference to the burn of a short, fast session.
I wasn't good at the short – 100m or 200m – but the long distances, yeah.
Coming from a sprinting background I'd have to say Usain I think, but the thing is the speeds that Mo and everyone else run at those distances is so fast as well, I think it's sort of unfathomable for someone like myself.
Simon and his partner Clarissa (who drove the van) are eager to show that anyone who is reasonably active can cycle long distances; it's not just for the Lycra brigade.
Written in distinctive Ellis style it is as putting a knife to the bone, inhumanely precise and true of what most people experience of living in LA, where car culture and massive distances can put a distance to fellow human beings.
It is difficult logistically out there because the distances are much greater.
People generally travel quite significant distances so the cost savings do add up quickly," she says.
For example, those studying at the elite Russell Group institutions are likely to have travelled smaller distances than those at other universities founded before 1992.
