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Examples
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A majority thinks sheep farts have more to do with temperature variations on earth than the ball of nuclear fire the size of 1.3 million earths that is eight light-minutes away.
Archive 2009-04-01 Dr. Sanity 2009
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Try a couple light-minutes for current off the shelf hardware to pick up the waste heat from a ship.
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As far as the real candidates go, Gravel gets my vote for the best campaign vids by several light-minutes. ...
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They emerged from that microjump only light-minutes from the battle; scan monitors filled almost instantly with the data pouring in.
Command Decision Moon, Elizabeth 2007
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As far as the real candidates go, Gravel gets my vote for the best campaign vids by several light-minutes.
Silly season 2007
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Most observers — who by this point were doing their observing by remote, from twenty light-minutes away — expected animal life on Hippolyta, humanity included, to go extinct in a generation.
The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection Dozois, Gardner 2006
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About the only thing he knew for certain that it said was that it should be deployed in space, within ten light-minutes of the star.
Creative Couplings John S. Drew 2005
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“That array is six light-minutes away,” Gold said as he made for his chair.
Creative Couplings John S. Drew 2005
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About the only thing he knew for certain that it said was that it should be deployed in space, within ten light-minutes of the star.
Creative Couplings John S. Drew 2005
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“That array is six light-minutes away,” Gold said as he made for his chair.
Creative Couplings John S. Drew 2005
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