distant dream
collocation in Englishmeaningsofdistantanddream
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distant
adjective
uk/ˈdɪs.tənt/us/ˈdɪs.tənt/
far ...
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dream
noun[C]
uk/driːm/us/driːm/
a series of events or images that happen in your mind when you ...
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(Definition ofdistantanddreamfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofdistant dream
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What is more, sustainable livelihoods for the poor remain adistantdream.
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In this sense, the goal of stable peace and a pluralistic security community, which demands more regional collaboration and further national reforms, remains adistantdream.
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Does he not realise that, by the time the young offenders reach court, the offence is adistantdream?
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I think it is a verydistantdream.
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There are many people for whom any kind of normal living in the community is adistantdream.
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For that lovely, gentle woman and for millions of others throughout the world, human rights and equality are adistantdream.
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The whole world admires us for having made a reality of something which, a short time ago, seemed adistantdream.
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However, 35 years later, that still seems to be adistantdream.
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The disease has been a terrible blow to farmers and to the wider rural community, and for some, recovery will still seem adistantdream.
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For the great majority of humanity it is still adistantdream.
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Is this somedistantdreamwhich is quite out of place in our present difficulties, or is it something which is to be done in the immediate future?
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Social inclusion was adistantdreamthen.
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Only a few years ago, this was adistantdream.
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Her lifelong ambition, that of appearing on network television, begins to look like adistantdream.
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According to most anti-nuclear groups, nuclear fusion power remains adistantdream.
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It is a hand-to-mouth existence; but they have got used to it, with their own small pleasures and distant dreams.
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