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Originally Posted by tompe
We do not use block ("kvarter") in the US way in Sweden and we would not usually say that you walked three blocks. But in describing some directions it would be OK to say something like "the shop is two block up the street". Is that kind of construction not used in UK? If the street have obvious "blocks".
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No, we never say that, simply because almost no British town or city is built on a grid system (there are a very few exceptions to that, but not many). We'd say something like "the shop is 400 yards up the street", or perhaps even "cross two side streets and the shop is on your left", but we'd never, ever, talk about "blocks".