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distant past

collocation in English

meanings of distantand past


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distant
adjective
uk /ˈdɪs.tənt/ us /ˈdɪs.tənt/
far ...
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past
noun[S]
uk /pɑːst/ us /pæst/
the period before and until, but not including, the ...
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Examples of distant past


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Similar events surely occurred in the distantpast.
Textual sources reflecting the views of powerful elders in the distantpast are not comparable with surveys of the aged poor in recent times.
My eyes were glued to the drawing as if they were objects animating a dream of my distantpast.
This obscurity only deepens when one moves to the more distantpast, as the number of records and firsthand accounts rapidly dwindles.
It seeks description as well as causal explanation, depth as well as breadth, the exploration of the distantpast as well as of the present.
Perhaps someone will, or perhaps someone in the more distantpast already has found a way to avoid all three.
They are associated with human events in the recent or distantpast.
The commoners were mostly descendants of the founding fathers, although some were either conquered or voluntarily joined the tribe in the distantpast.
Memoirs brought together the recent past and the future, instead of the immediate future-present and the future, or the recent past and the distantpast.
Some of these scripts originated in the distantpast, emerging out of traditions of remonstrance and petition stretching back for millennia.
Not surprisingly, if the incident happened in the more distantpast, the clients are less likely to include such specifics.
A recent present event equals a distantpast event, then, and this relationship makes sense of them in present life.
Past memories are also affected, although information from the distantpast may be better preserved than for the recent past.
In the distantpast, at the start of our simulations, an even greater proportion would have been encompassed.
They might not be relevant to some of the children that were born in the distantpast.
We are all too easily tempted to locate them in the distantpast.
Instead, descriptions of friction with the king, civil disobedience or electoral disputes were relegated to the dim and distantpast.
Such understanding is so important and so uncomfortable because we know that these things are not confined to the distantpast.
Nevertheless, impressive results have already been achieved, even for the more distantpast.
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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