No, you can't near is factored into rank. The closer the two words are
together the higher the rank all other things being equal.

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Hello, there is the chance to know "how near" one word is to another
in the following query

SELECT Description
FROM Production.ProductDescription
WHERE CONTAINS(Description, 'bike NEAR performance');

Moreover, could we control the proximity distance somewhat?
We use sql2005

Thanks