The phrase "a quite distant" is not correct in standard English usage.
The correct form would typically be "quite distant" or "a distant."
Example: "The stars appear quite distant from our planet."
Alternatives: "fairly far" or "somewhat remote."
The carcass finders had to communicate information that lay far outside the sensory range of potential recruits, and they had to convince those recruits to abandon whatever they were doing and travel to a perhaps quite distant site for an invisible goal.
Arriving one year after President Charles de Gaulle ended the joyous anarchy of May 1968, the film, which treats him as a figure quite distant from the day-to-day life of the Resistance fighters, was seen as the old guard's celebration of the authority that the events of May '68 had called into question.
The majority of the R tailocins constitutes a second, quite distant clade (Rp3) to which no proteins originating from pseudomonad (pro phages were assigned.
This limitation has probably been responsible for the frequent use of a particular technique in order to analyze the onset of terminal differentiation, the suspension of single keratinocytes in culture medium made viscous by the dissolution of methylcellulose, a situation quite distant from the natural environment of keratinocytes in the epidermis.
Although Quine's argument ("no entity without identity") finds a different motivation in a logical context quite distant from that of Poincaré's, the result is similar.
But people in the company said he heatedly argued against operating the company with an eye on futuristic strategies involving the television and the computer becaming one, when such a future seems quite distant.
Electors abroad, unlike electors at home, are often required to register and to vote in a polling station quite distant from their place of residence, especially when the migrant community is scattered in a vast territory in which few polling stations are available.
Physicians appear to assert their status through behaviours that separate them from others, for instance, how they dress, or speak, or indeed where they choose to sit in the wards – often behind a large desk, quite distant from the patient.
As we found ANC coverage to be much higher in villages with a health centre compared to villages quite distant from a health centre, and as we included similar numbers of health centre and non-health centre villages, our ANC coverage figure is likely to be an overestimate.
The fact that Sony and Bertelsmann are already proposing to merge their music businesses makes the likelihood that regulators in Washington and Brussels would approve a Warner-EMI deappearear quite distant.
