Given a set of points such that |P|≥q4/3, we establish that for a positive proportion of points a07377a7057e4" title="Click to view the MathML source">a∈P, we have
|{‖a−b‖:b∈P}|≫q,
where ‖a−b‖ is the distance between points a and b. This improves a result of Chapman et al. [6].
A key ingredient of our proof also shows that, if |P|≥q3/2, then the number B of distinct lines which arise as the perpendicular bisector of two points in P satisfies B≫q2.