Use the ONEAR operator for ordered proximity searches.

term1 must appear within num words before term2 in the document.

For example, if a user specifies:

"Mark Twain" NEAR/8 Hartford

The following sentence:

"Tour the Hartford, 
Connecticut home where Mark Twain lived and
 worked from 1874 to 1891."

would not be considered a match because the word "Hartford" must appear after the phrase "Mark Twain" in the text (assuming that the next eight words are not "Hartford").