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