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The Descendants has arguably benefited the most from Oscar attention, as the Alexander Payne drama is now at $65 million, or a stone's-throw away from Sideways's $72 million cume.

Scott Mendelson: Weekend Box Office: Chronicle, The Woman in Black Each Debut to Over $20M; Big Miracle Underwhelms Scott Mendelson 2012

The Descendants has arguably benefited the most from Oscar attention, as the Alexander Payne drama is now at $65 million, or a stone's-throw away from Sideways's $72 million cume.

Scott Mendelson: Weekend Box Office: Chronicle, The Woman in Black Each Debut to Over $20M; Big Miracle Underwhelms Scott Mendelson 2012

The tournament kicks off at Johannesburg's Soccer City Stadium, a mere stone's-throw away from the famous Soweto Township.

Oliver Haydock: The Top Five (Or So) Games of the World Cup 2010

And it is but a stone's-throw from Bebelplatz, the square located near Humbolt University where the Nazis held their first "book burning" on 10 May 1933.

Archive 2007-03-01 Helen 2007

A stone's-throw away the grim tepee of the dead chief glimmered now out of the shadow, now in, and to the east behind a rocky bluff, through which led a narrow gorge, the river hurried to the north.

The Maid of the Whispering Hills

Within a stone's-throw the sluggish river crept along its blackened bed, no longer a stream fresh from the hills, but foul with the service of selfish man.

Lancashire Idylls (1898) Marshall Mather

Clinking his keys, the clerk walked away to his home, an ivy-covered cottage not a stone's-throw off; the clergyman lingered in the churchyard, reading the memorials on the tombstones.

The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 2, February, 1891 Various

Meanwhile Trim's father, a man near seventy years of age, who lived only a stone's-throw away, hearing the uproar, and being told the gang had come for his son, ran to the house with the intention, as he afterwards declared, of persuading him to go quietly.

The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore

They had all lived neighbors to the Lowries, a mile or so beyond the dike which is a stone's-throw from the duke's palace, near Hamilton; the "gudemen" of their families, hearing great reports of the mines in America, and the times being hard for miners at home, had gone out to verify them,

Harper's Young People, January 13, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly Various

I cannot see my stable, which is within a stone's-throw of the house.

The American Missionary — Volume 42, No. 03, March, 1888 Various