Unit of length used to express astronomical distances, defined as the distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
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Parthenon was only six months ago, but you're dozens of light-years away.
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The inner is at the distance of six light-years around the sun.
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Worry faded when she saw the wormhole was only thirteen light-years long.
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Fortunately, it is a safe and comfortable ten thousand light-years from us.
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I envisaged transporting a Saturn-sized planet five hundred light-years as a test.
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Three jumps later, spanning seven light-years, they were alone in interstellar space.
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We now made six closely spaced jumps of a few light-years apiece.
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The nearest fixed star with an available planet is eight-hundred-fifty light-years away.
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Two hundred light-years behind the Pilgrimage fleet, eight relay stations failed simultaneously.
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It's a spiral galaxy sitting some half a billion light-years from Earth.
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They're on Terra, five hundred light-years, six months' ship voyage each way.
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Most artifact passengers did it to help pass the long light-years.
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It was difficult to believe that I was many light-years distant from England.
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This was light-years ahead of Atari, went the message: It has a robot!
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These people appear to have come from several hundred light-years away.
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Previous versions plotted the locations of galaxies within 7 billion light-years of Earth.