The NEAR operator in the CONTAINS predicate is improved in SQL Server 2012 (Denali) to allow users to specify distance between two terms.
This allows a user to run queries such as:
SELECT candidate_name FROM Candidates WHERE CONTAINS( Resume, 'NEAR(("SQL Server", expertise),5, FALSE)' );
The above query retrieves all resumes containing the term “SQL Server” within no more than 5 words from “expertise”