A good (great, little, etc.) distance. Frequently followed by an adverb, esp. off, away.
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On this side, was the kitchen, the regular kitchen for the home. And you went in a door just inside the back-door. You went in there, maybe not just inside but just up a little ways, you went in there into the kitchen, and that was a great big kitchen, and it had a table sitting in the centre of the floor ... |
A good (great, little, etc.) distance. Frequently followed by an adverb, esp. off, away. |
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Speaker: That's not the pictures I wanted. I wanted- I wanted to show you the- the ah, Jacobs-house. And it was just in a little ways, ah- Interviewer: From Dave-Hill's there. Speaker: Just- just in from the road. Ah, you can see some dead elms, back in there. Where that's where the house was. |
A good (great, little, etc.) distance. Frequently followed by an adverb, esp. off, away. |
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Speaker: ... as soon as you get closer to the volcano, the vegetation was much more like a tropical jungle, it was, it was wild, it was so wild to see. Interviewer 2: Probably animals too. Speaker: Ah, we didn 't, like yeah we didn 't see anything that time but we drove through this thing a little ways until I couldn 't do it anymore because of the car, but um, it was, it was crazy. |
A good (great, little, etc.) distance. Frequently followed by an adverb, esp. off, away. |
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Um, and then my- my mom's parents owned a cottage on Kinesis-Lake which was- it's about a two-hour drive. It's passed Halliburton, a little ways there. Um, and so we both had- Kinesis generally we'd go to for like a week or-something, when we're all had vacation time. |
A good (great, little, etc.) distance. Frequently followed by an adverb, esp. off, away. |
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... I remember that area- that general area where we were behind M-C-T-V was exactly where my dad worked. But when I would meet him after work I'd meet him just a little ways up at the old- old train station at ah- back there, that was where the car- car-shop actually was. |
A good (great, little, etc.) distance. Frequently followed by an adverb, esp. off, away. |
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Interviewer: Okay. Do you um remember ah at work at any time when it's someone else from another department (inc) or someone being severely injured or ah any emergency procedures (inc) or? Speaker: Well, stepping back a little ways, there was the- there was an instance. I worked at the MacIntyre ah 'til January of eighty, and just after I left, there was a worker that I used to work with had his arm torn off. |
A good (great, little, etc.) distance. Frequently followed by an adverb, esp. off, away. |
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Interviewer: Were you born in New-Liskeard? Speaker: I was born in Cane-Township down here. Just- Interviewer: Cane-Township. Speaker: Yeah, just a little ways from here. ... 'Bout four-miles- three or four-miles from here. |
A good (great, little, etc.) distance. Frequently followed by an adverb, esp. off, away. |
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... I- I- I haven't moved very far. As a matter of fact, most of my life is on this street. ... One-Twenty-Two-Burnside- ... And up- a little ways up the street on Burnside-Drive, there was a little house. There's no longer there that I- I grew up in, so most of my life has been on this street ... |
A good (great, little, etc.) distance. Frequently followed by an adverb, esp. off, away. |
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I can remember um- and there was always diapers right? 'Cause there was always a baby so some days she would have to finish drying them in the- in the kitchen dining room area so that she would have lines running across the top of the- of the room. A little ways down from the ceiling and have several dozen diapers hanging all over the place ... |
A good (great, little, etc.) distance. Frequently followed by an adverb, esp. off, away. |
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But they had great meals wherever you went. And French-fried-potatoes and- ... Right across the street in the motel in Acapulco, you'd walk across the street a little ways and- and you're right at home there. Just like you're eating at home. A very relaxed atmosphere. And the prices were very reasonable. |
A good (great, little, etc.) distance. Frequently followed by an adverb, esp. off, away. |