Unit 3 - Vocabulary Exercises
Exercise 3 Prepositions with distance. Fill in the prepositions. If you are unsure, try looking up the word distance in a good dictionary.
#1. The car was parked at a distance______ about 150 metres from the scene of the robbery.
#2. I saw you ______ the distance yesterday but I didn’t call out as I could see you were with someone.
#3. She’s a great shot. She can hit an empty can ______ a distance of about 100 feet, which I can’t.
#4. What’s the total distance ______ here to Nukus?
#5. The student is thus given criticism of a paper ______ a considerable distance from their reading of it.
#6. As a young man, he participated in track and field sports, and was a ______ distance runner.
#7. The measured quantity used here is the surface clevation at a point a ______ distance from the paddle.
#8. The ______ distance was maintained – and proper was the operative word.
#9. Rustam turned away and, as if searching for something, gazed ______ the distance, at the waters of the Danube, at the sky, and at the sun.
#10. It’s ______ distance, you know.
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