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Grapepark Posted 13 years ago
Vocabulary

10 feet of several residences

Would you please paraphrase this sentence? I cant understand it.

This highway project requires an extended period of heavy construction within 10 feet of several residences.
  

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There will be a lot of noise for a long time within 10 feet of several houses.

— Mister Micawber

  • There will be a lot of noise for a long time within 10 feet of several houses.
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There will be a lot of noise for a long time within 10 feet of several houses.
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Which part do you not understand?

By the way, 10 feet is approximately 3 metres.
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10 feet of several residences.
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shininggirl10 feet of several residences.
That is not a collocation, shining girl. See my paraphrase. It means 'a distance of 10 feet (3 meters) away from some houses'.
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aha. 10 feet away from the houses.
Now I got it.
I had been wondered how construction of highway can be 10 feet in the residences!!!
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shininggirlI had been wondered how construction of highway can be 10 feet in the residences!!!
I had been wondering how the construction of a highway can be 10 feet from the residences!!!

The houses were built too close to the edge of the road, or land where a road would be built.
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It's actually 10 feet or less. That's what the "within" means. I live within a mile of my school. He came within an inch of dropping the rock on his foot. All our satellites are within the orbit of the moon.
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Thanks for your great help.
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