Five hundred miles away in Amman, Faysal Yasiri is watching the broadcast with greater interest than most.

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Five hundred miles downstream is a colonial capital Leopoldville, now known as Kinshasa.

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Five Days Later: A few hundred miles later, what the 300 Luxury has going for it is high on comfort.

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This turned out to be a distance of twenty-six miles three hundred and eighty-five yards.

NEWYORKER: Glory Days

Carmi, Illinois a town on the Little Wabash River, down in the southern tip of the state, twenty-five miles from Kentucky, population about fifty-five hundred.

NEWYORKER: The Conciliator

That year, Jones learned about a plan to construct a five-hundred-and-forty-bed juvenile-detention center some twenty miles east of Oakland, in Dublin.

NEWYORKER: Greening the Ghetto

With a top speed of around twenty-five miles per hour, it would do little for the ego, but, at just over five hundred dollars, it was worth a try.

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