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Based on the mileage, the next checkpoint in line -- the village of Shageluk, located at race mile 461 -- is the more proper mid-distance marker.
AlaskaDispatch.com: Rough Trail Lies in Wait Past Iditarod AlaskaDispatch.com 2011
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Based on the mileage, the next checkpoint in line -- the village of Shageluk, located at race mile 461 -- is the more proper mid-distance marker.
AlaskaDispatch.com: Rough Trail Lies in Wait Past Iditarod AlaskaDispatch.com 2011
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Eight out ten of Spain's high-speed train trips were cancelled, all mid-distance were scrapped and only 25% of commuter trains were running.
European day of protests and strikes: live updates Matthew Weaver 2010
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The 3-D process in question is one of those aftermarket fakes that enhances mainly mid-distance bodies and structural elements within the frame, so you can take the glasses off during most of the close-ups—and much of the movie is shot in pitiless close-ups.
'Thor': A Vehicle of Low Norsepower Joe Morgenstern 2011
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Based on the mileage, the next checkpoint in line -- the village of Shageluk, located at race mile 461 -- is the more proper mid-distance marker.
AlaskaDispatch.com: Rough Trail Lies in Wait Past Iditarod AlaskaDispatch.com 2011
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In the mid-distance, a modern paved road enters from the right and makes a 90-degree turn to take traffic away from the ancient columns and crumbling forts.
Of Lost People and Lands of Fragments William Meyers 2011
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At mid-distance, the smears and glops coalesce into human features and garments: a beard, a pair of bushy eyebrows, a nurse's cap, a doctor's bow tie.
ArtScene: This Week's Top Exhibitions in the Western U.S. (August 17-21, 2010) 2010
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Like an olympic mid-distance runner, he was planning how long to keep it close and then when to pull away.
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Oliver Platt and John Hodgman are terrific as a team of antagonists, those Apple ads, shot at mid-distance, giving no hint of the mad glint Hodgman is capable of flashing as he practices literary oneupsmanship on Schwartzman's Ames.
The Bored and the Gored: James Wolcott Wolcott, James, 1952- 2009
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People are awakening as if from a trance to the realization that mid-distance rail travel isn't a punch line but an escape valve.
Lynn Becker: A Civic Seance: Can the Spirit of Daniel Burnham Reshape Chicago? 2008
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