The phrase "within a reasonable distance" is correct and commonly used in written English.
It means that something is situated or located close enough to be convenient or easily reachable. Example: The restaurant should be within a reasonable distance from our hotel so that we can easily walk there for dinner. In this sentence, the phrase is used to describe the desired proximity between the hotel and the restaurant.
In a time of rapid consolidation, there often weren't any other plants within a reasonable distance.
borders_maritime Array of IDs for countries that it borders by sea (within a reasonable distance).
In remote rural places there may be only one physician within a reasonable distance.
Our XBees are compliant for the FCC considerations which is all that matters for uses within a reasonable distance.
Every city, large or small, will always need emergency room staff and obstetricians within a reasonable distance.
The ministerial code permits ministers to use official cars for home-to-office journeys within a reasonable distance of London when they are working on classified papers".
Some of her fellow teachers won't be able to afford to rent a flat within a reasonable distance of their school because London prices are so high.
The Border Patrol does have considerable authority to question people within its parameters of a "reasonable" distance from the border, so long as it doesn't do so in a discriminatory way.
For further analysis, at least two of these motifs had to occur in a reasonable distance within a contig.
865, 8 U.S.C. 110 (1946 ed)., 7 authorizes appropriately designated Immigration and Naturalization officers to search vehicles 'within a reasonable distance from any external boundary of the United States' without a warrant.
The Government seeks to justify the search on the basis of § 287(a)(3) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, which provides for warrantless searches of automobiles and other conveyances 'within a reasonable distance from any external boundary of the United States,' as authorized by regulations to be promulgated by the Attorney General.
