Mason's favoured comparison is a much more distant year, when abortive revolts spread across Europe at speed, and two fired-up German radicals wrote The Communist Manifesto.
One day, in some distant year, a new crossing may indeed open for business.
In that distant year, Quito was a small city of 250,000.
Not from some distant year; something from just a bit away on the chronological horizon.
In some cases, that meant a last-minute switch from a distant four-year campus to a two-year community college closer to home.
Recently, a story on the Leader website announced that La Cañada Flintridge had the highest life expectancy of any city in Los Angeles County (87.8 years), and Burbank was a distant 37th (81.2 years).
The dead grow more distant, year by year.
The franchise responsible for that lone championship a distant 31 years ago, the NBA Supersonics, left for Oklahoma City two years ago, lured by a better arena deal.
However, the results from the present analysis do not readily indicate strong connections in streamflow dynamics between successive/different years (as a result of "annual cycle") or between distant years (as a result of the influence of large-scale climate patterns and long-term evolution, including decadal cycles).
The political transformation needed to prepare the US for a warming world seemed impossibly distant, years or even decades distant, in the face of a problem scientists warn could be out of control by then.
Data gathered when the dwarf planet Makemake passed in front of a distant star last year are shedding new light on the icy orb's size, shape, and atmosphere or, more precisely, its lack of one.
