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distant prospect

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meanings of distantand prospect


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distant
adjective
uk /ˈdɪs.tənt/ us /ˈdɪs.tənt/
far ...
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prospect
noun
uk /ˈprɒs.pekt/ us /ˈprɑː.spekt/
the possibility that something good might happen in ...
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Examples of distant prospect


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In this situation, economic recovery seemed only a distantprospect.
In the context of the gendered division of care work, equal pensions resulting from equal lifetime earnings are a distantprospect.
It will be but a dim and distantprospect when it is first seen.
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When we first launched it in 1988, the whole idea seemed a distantprospect.
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I have just emerged from the halcyon days of youth, and can recall what a distantprospect reaching the age of 60 once seemed.
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It is a distantprospect rather than an immediate one irrespective of the attitudes that countries take to the convention.
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That may seem to some to be a distantprospect, but it is not so.
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We all acknowledge that frequent air journeys to the islands by large groups of civilians are a rather distantprospect.
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Realistically, that is a distantprospect, but it would be nice to have reliable data on which to base relief measures.
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At the present moment this is something quite nebulous, some far distantprospect in which the majority of people hardly believe.
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Approving the opening of negotiations makes this a more distantprospect and continues a policy of ongoing enlargement.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
For these children the liberating effect of higher education is a distantprospect.
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The subsidy was running at £12 million a year and there was not even a distantprospect of the project becoming viable.
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Everybody agreed that it was not a "distantprospect" but a very real prospect of what education ought to be in this country.
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That may now seem to many a distantprospect, but no other vision for the region offers any lasting hope.
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It seems a distantprospect now.
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It may seem a distantprospect from the subject we are discussing, but when two spaceships dock in space there has to be careful preparation and co-operation.
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But so long as that peace is a more distantprospect than any of us would wish, it is important that these measures reach the statute book.
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Bailout eligibility is a distantprospect for most covered jurisdictions.
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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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