within ames ace in English

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          "ref": "1959, Georgette Heyer, chapter 17, in The Unknown Ajax",
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        "Nearly, very near."
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        "(obsolete, British, idiomatic) Nearly, very near."
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          "ref": "1959, Georgette Heyer, chapter 17, in The Unknown Ajax",
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        "Nearly, very near."
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        "(obsolete, British, idiomatic) Nearly, very near."
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"within ames ace" meaning in English

Prepositional phrase