distant memory
collocation in Englishmeaningsofdistantandmemory
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distant
adjective
uk/ˈdɪs.tənt/us/ˈdɪs.tənt/
far ...
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memory
noun
uk/ˈmem.ər.i/us/ˈmem.ər.i/
the ability to remember information, experiences, ...
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(Definition ofdistantandmemoryfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofdistant memory
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The values and religious-political sanctions that once checked forest exploitation have passed intodistantmemory.
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Additionally, as the rage of party became adistantmemory, national political issues were less likely to be divisive.
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Prices were extraordinarily high and the first period of perceived stability and real economic and demographic expansion between 1541 and 1600 was rapidly becoming adistantmemory.
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Today in many parishes throughout the land those are adistantmemory.
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The show of hands at mass meetings is adistantmemory.
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The industrial relations turmoil of the 1960s and 1970s is now adistantmemory.
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The dark days of the early 1990s seem predominantly to be adistantmemory.
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The animosities of the seventeenth century are now adistantmemory.
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The berry-picking season is nothing more than adistantmemory.
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We often opposed each other in the more distant past, especially on transport matters ofdistantmemory.
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Cuts in revenue support have made the housing support grant a fond anddistantmemoryfor many housing associations.
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I am sure we all fervently hope that by that time the problems of foot and mouth disease will be adistantmemory.
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The last 2 wickets had added 176 and day 1 seemed adistantmemory.
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It has since faded into the past as adistantmemory.
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It is no coincidence that as employment has risen and mass unemployment has become adistantmemory—hopefully, it will never blight this country again—crime has decreased.
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Military discipline was adistantmemoryand the greater part of the troops was without uniforms and without arms.
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It is not impossible—indeed, it has happened within not verydistantmemory—that the savings of families may be wiped out by the collapse of a building society.
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But those successes were now very much adistantmemoryas both clubs slid into the league's fourth tier for the first time.
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But those successes were now very much adistantmemoryas both clubs slid into the leagues fourth tier for the first time.
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