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Meanings of paces in English

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        Usage of paces in English
        1
        They'd gone several paces before I saw that the plan wasn't working.
        Summer knight
        2
        Brakes are loosened at different paces however, and the recovery remains uneven.
        The Guardian
        3
        Juba paces as he listens, but he doesn't interrupt or ask questions.
        Daughters of the Nile
        4
        She stormed ahead, leaving me paces behind for the whole walk home.
        Tell the Wolves I’m Home
        5
        His helmet display counted rads, paces, heart rate: counted down the metres.
        Engineering Infinity
        6
        This is the first time she's come within ten paces of me.
        The Wise Man’s Fear
        7
        The guard on either side remained two hundred paces in the rear.
        Caesar: A Sketch
        8
        For perhaps two hundred paces we skirted the base of the wall.
        The Metal Monster
        9
        Mevrou walked three paces ahead of me all the way to town.
        The power of one
        10
        Indeed, in a matter of a few paces, it was gone altogether.
        The Lair of Bones
        11
        He'd gone a dozen paces when he heard Smith's voice behind him.
        The rebels of ireland: the dublin saga
        12
        The chamber was almost square and about three paces wide and long.
        The hangman's daughter
        13
        And the Australian public can spot a fraud at a thousand paces.
        The Guardian
        14
        I found the Count a few paces off, in the Rue Saint-Maur.
        Honorine
        15
        For a dozen paces she found no difficulty in following the ford.
        The Mucker
        16
        Lazaris walked a few paces ahead, the soldiers a few paces behind.
        The Wolf’s Hour
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