The ship's speed was up to a light-year every five hours. From Wordnik.com. [The Voyage of the Space Beagle]
It receded an entire light-year, then two, and then three. From Wordnik.com. [The Voyage of the Space Beagle]
By your figuring, we shouldn't be yet one light-year on the way. From Wordnik.com. [Out Around Rigel] Reference
The stars of the Core are an average of half a light-year apart. From Wordnik.com. [Neutron Star]
All moving at that single velocity, three days to the light-year. From Wordnik.com. [Down in Flames]
On paper, Ms. Heigl was the bigger star by light-year proportions. From Wordnik.com. [MSNBC���s David Shuster: Defender of Clinton Family Honor?] Reference
Brother, do we go out half a light-year and reenter the time axis?. From Wordnik.com. [Time Enough For Love]
It would not get them a thousandth of a light-year closer to Earth. From Wordnik.com. [The Dig]
By a kilometer, a light-year, a galactic diameter-he would never know. From Wordnik.com. [Flinx In Flux]
Our task was easy, because we were about half a light-year from the sun. From Wordnik.com. [Accidental Death] Reference
Every light-year the processors worked a bit more slowly (or not at all). From Wordnik.com. [A Fire Upon the Deep]
Every light-year took them further from the regions Ølvira was built for. From Wordnik.com. [A Fire Upon the Deep]
It stuck out of her a light-year, the time I saw you two in the same room. From Wordnik.com. [The Stars Are Also Fire]
Ten times per second all three ships jumped a tiny fraction of a light-year. From Wordnik.com. [A Fire Upon the Deep]
They had been doing five jumps a second, and just over a light-year per hour. From Wordnik.com. [A Fire Upon the Deep]
A light-year is the distance light travels in one year about 5.8 trillion miles. From Wordnik.com. [BABY SUPERNOVA is just 140 years old] Reference
The Drusus was close to making its 650 light-year transition into the Orion sector. From Wordnik.com. [Plasma Monster]
Calculate the distance light travels in one year and call the result a "light-year". From Wordnik.com. [Dan Agin: A Demon in the Head II: Early Days and Murderous Violence] Reference
In an ordinary storm, the surface might move in or out a light-year in a decade or so. From Wordnik.com. [A Fire Upon the Deep]
Once, also, another vessel passed within a light-year and thus its "wake" was detected. From Wordnik.com. [Ensign Flandry]
A light-year out from Evenwaith in transit to Dumarl, something extraordinary happened. From Wordnik.com. [The Man Who Used the Universe]
One Turlog cared not a whit if another of its kind lived nearer than a light-year away. From Wordnik.com. [A Call to Arms]
And they're packed a quarter to a half light-year apart, according to your own theories. From Wordnik.com. [A World Out of Time]
It was not impossible for a lugger to be trapped a light-year or two within the Slowness. From Wordnik.com. [A Fire Upon the Deep]
But roughly 10 million stars are known to orbit within a light-year of the galaxy's center. From Wordnik.com. [The Sun, Milky Way And Universe Are All United By Urge To Unite] Reference
Year Four Nine-tenths of a light-year distant, the sun of Tahir stood lord among the stars. From Wordnik.com. [Starfarers]
Since they know where to look, their instruments can pinpoint it at more than a light-year. From Wordnik.com. [Ensign Flandry]
We brought home a spacecraft capable of crossing a light-year in one point two five minutes. From Wordnik.com. [The Ringworld Engineers]
A sphere one light-year in diameter had to be searched for a point measuring 1.5 kilometres. From Wordnik.com. [Blazing Sun]
In another month, when the star would be a half light-year away, deceleration would commence. From Wordnik.com. [The Past Through Tomorrow]
No matter how powerful, a signal cannot be received beyond a distance of about one light-year. From Wordnik.com. [The Rebel Worlds]
Closing up to less than one light-year, he slowed his pace to match theirs and held his distance. From Wordnik.com. [Galactic Patrol]
Here we are, spang in the middle of a hundred light-year strip of no man's land between our realms. From Wordnik.com. [Ensign Flandry]
The place was about one light-year from the Ephog system and Perry Rhodan surmised that it was Maj. From Wordnik.com. [Enemy in the Dark]
So we'd be almost a quarter light-year from Sol, a year after departure, before achieving relative rest. From Wordnik.com. [The Burning Bridge] Reference
The OOB was suddenly doing only a quarter of a light-year per hour in a volume that tested good for two. From Wordnik.com. [A Fire Upon the Deep]
And even here at the Bottom of the Beyond, that came to a measurable fraction of a light-year on each jump. From Wordnik.com. [A Fire Upon the Deep]
Top pseudovelocity under the snail-powered hyperdrive of this craft would be less than one light-year per day. From Wordnik.com. [The Earth Book of Stormgate]
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