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ways

/weɪz/ noun A1
  1. A distance. (US, figuratively, informal) · a little ways out· Stuck in traffic... and still a good ways to go.
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“Small, stout-built, very quick in his ways, no hair on his face, though he’s not short of thirty.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, p. 17 · B2
As far as I can make out, the League was founded by an American millionaire, Ezekiah Hopkins, who was very peculiar in his ways.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, p. 8 · B2
There’s never anybody to be had but those stupid, half-grown little French boys; and as soon as you do get one broke into your ways and taught something he’s up and off to the lobster canneries or the States.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 7 · C1
He was coarse in his habits and brutish in his ways.
A Study in Scarlet, p. 61 · B2

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