The distance from the earth to the sun at its nearest point.
To make the numbers easy to remember, they could be rounded to the nearest 50 points, and then left unchanged for a year.
The nearest point of the beach he could reach was thus fully that distance off.
The nearest high point is the Warren, 606 meters above sea level.
He then walked from the beach to the nearest point at which a car could have been parked.
We were really 1.18 points apart, but things are rounded off to the nearest point.
This was agreed to as the "nearest point" of the treaty.
What is more, at the nearest point, they were only some thirty miles from Rome.
At the nearest point they are 30km away from the island of Madeira.
That will be the nearest point we can get to the guillotine.