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hearing distance

The distance at which a given sound can be heard.
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After initiating calls, apps can also be used to listen to conversations within hearing distance of a mobile device.
Mobile apps expose personal information, says Juniper
Stands away from field edges, on inside corners and adjacent to bedding cover often lie within hearing distance of your quarry.
Wait patiently ... Or go get 'em?
And there are no maternity wards within hearing distance, which means this generation of young Cockneys could be the last.
Celeb culture 'reinventing' cockney rhyming slang
Court chairman Emrys Williams told the defendant: "This offence was racially aggravated, in a public place with lots of children within hearing distance, and you were highly intoxicated with complete disregard to who you were insulting.
RACE RANT
Can that be done by the Centre alone when provincial regimes are more keen on guarding their turf instead of setting up robust anti-graft forums where honest people can blow whistle away from the hearing distance of corrupt politicos and policemen?
Anna's anti-Congress encore
The device also activates a pager carried by the officer so that if he is not within hearing distance of his siren, he'll know the dogs need attention.
Police dogs get a cool gift from Doody's donations; Money to buy heat sensing device for K-9 car
The snowmobile that towed our camper had to stay back from us at least a mile because it is illegal to hunt polar bears from them, not to mention that the noisy snowmobile would spook any bear within hearing distance.
White on white: noting is ever easy when it comes to bow-bagging a polar bear
Or maybe those born within hearing distance of the call to prayer at Birmingham central mosque?
Search for real Brum family; InsideView
The communications device used two empty tin cans and a piece of string long enough to reach beyond normal hearing distance.
What I learned about communications from tin cans and string
I just hope church bells all over Staffs and Lichfield ring out in respect to the memory of Michael Eccles as well on a regular basis and in hearing distance of the cells containing those two evil killers.
Sentences showed muddled priorities; AGENDA & LETTERS
After a brief waiting period Iris and Dorothea are dispatched to a grim army hospital in northeastern France near the village of Plotieres unnervingly within hearing distance of falling bombs.
The Innocents
Practice with a mouth call until you can do a good job of imitating a crow in distress, and if they are within hearing distance get ready for some of the most exciting shooting you will ever experience.
Extend your season: crows--the varmints of the sky

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