(In 2013, the C.E.O. of one such startup, the software company Qualtrics*, wrote that his firm, which had recently been valued by investors at more than a billion dollars, was headquartered within a thousand yards of two other startups worth more than a billion dollars).
"I have no family to speak of within a thousand miles of here.
No penguins has ever been reported within a thousand miles of the South Pole.
You couldn't play ball on Sunday at Fenway because there was a church within a thousand feet of the park.
The two of you don't walk together within a thousand feet of the golf course or the driving range.
For the weekend, whether you were a racing fan or not, the Bahrain International Circuit was the hottest club within a thousand miles.
And preferably something so exotic the diner has never eaten it or heard of it, and probably couldn't buy it anywhere within a thousand miles.
Things are changing in Qatar and Saudi Arabia, but for now Dubai still has no peer within a thousand miles," says Simon Williams, chief Middle East economist of HSBC.
Whenever some wild captive dropped dead within a thousand miles — a victim of sunstroke or virus, homesickness or honey-roasted peanuts — chances were that it would soon appear here, miraculously restored.
I might feel different if you practiced medicine in a provincial town on the Russian steppes, like some brooding doctor out of Chekhov, with no other physician within a thousand miles.
Soon, the state legislature voted to require registrants to report their place of work, volunteer activity, and education; new "Predator-Free Zones" were also introduced, prohibiting convicted sex offenders from going within a thousand feet of a school.
