The phrase "a distant prospect of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a future possibility or likelihood that seems far off or uncertain.
Example: "While we are currently facing challenges, there is a distant prospect of achieving our goals if we remain committed."
Alternatives: "a remote possibility of" or "a far-off chance of".
It's a distant prospect, of course.
Gray had begun to write English poems, among which some of the best were "Ode on the Spring," "Sonnet on the Death of Mr. Richard West," "Hymn to Adversity," and "Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College".
In 1747, in his "Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College," Thomas Gray referred to the "flying ball" and the "fearful joy" that it provided the "idle progeny" of England's elite.
A massive creature with a ragged coat, seemingly a cross between a European greyhound and a sheepdog, it humbly stands in profile next to its doghouse, high on a bluff over a distant prospect of pastureland that leads toward a town on the horizon.
Whilst paid employment is a distant prospect for many of our residents (68% have been out of work for longer than 5 years), we have a range of work projects which attempt to help people find something satisfying to do, where they have a better chance of succeeding than of failing, and which can lead progressively at least towards employment.
Commercial viability is, however, still a distant prospect for most of the projects being exhibited.
Such variety is a distant prospect for owners of tablets powered by other operating systems, such as Google's Android.
Despite growing interest in their troubles, that seems a distant prospect for those languishing on the edge of the working world.
· While clarity remains a distant prospect for LSC scribes, nobody can question the bravery of Rob Wye.
That, however, remains a distant prospect while the design of the aircraft keeps changing.Even so, Mr Burbage points out that the fixed-price contract agreed with the Pentagon for 32 aircraft in the fourth production lot (including a 13% margin for Lockheed Martin) is half the price of the first lot of aircraft.
Of course, this Peak Wenger scenario is a distant prospect with the real slog of the season still to come.
