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Christine Christie Posted 5 years ago
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Is this sentence:


"I saw a kitten at the curb of the road, but when I was just a few feet in distance from it, it started running away."


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It is not natural. "I saw a kitten by the side of the road. "

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It is not natural.

"I saw a kitten by the side of the road. I tried to rescue it, but when I got within a few feet of it, it ran away."

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I saw a kitten at the curb, and I approached it, but when I got just a few feet from it, it started running away.

"in distance" is OK, but it's almost never necessary after a measurement of distance. For example, 'in distance' in sentence 2 adds nothing to the meaning of sentence 1.

1) No two campfires were more than a few feet from each other.
2) No two campfire

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