a ways

adverb, colloquial (originally U.S., chiefly North American), a considerable or not insignificant distance (“way, n.1 and int.1.” OED)

“He was a millwright, and he came up to Ogdensburg, which is down the river a ways.”

“They’re all from quite a ways away, I think.”

“I parked just in front of the boat a little ways. But they were all driving the ice then, eh.”

“We took our old coats off and put them on the milk wagon and went down to the school which was just a little ways away, and washed up at the cold pump.”