The phrase "a remote time" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a time that is far away in the past or future, often implying a sense of distance or inaccessibility.
Example: "In a remote time, when the world was still young, legends were born that shaped our history."
Alternatives: "a distant time" or "an ancient time".
Although John Sayles's new film, "Amigo," is set in what seems to be a remote time and place — a hamlet called San Isidro, in the Philippines, around 1900 — it bridges the gap in a hurry.
It can be a glorious thing to make a modern romance out of a remote time and person, to heighten the colors as you go along, painting pictures for the sake of having pictures.
Actual place names in the tale such as Skelghyl, Garthsgate, and Little-town ground the tale in a real world locality yet the tale is mythologized by suggesting a remote time before mechanical means of doing laundry had been invented.
Still, it is very impressive that not only can we detect these kinds of events occurring so close to the Big Bang but we can still find explanations from our local corner of the universe that seem to apply to such a remote time and space.
A second interpretation of all the studies was performed at a remote time (440 days median) using the osteomyelitis versus no osteomyelitis criteria.
"A Recluse and His Guest" takes place in an "far northern town" named Staad, in an unspecified "remote time".
Perhaps it's also spooky, not in the cheesy scare way that that word often implies, but rather in the way that it so strongly evokes a slow and remote time and place that we can hardly imagine here in 2003 USA.
A museum of the past, for this traveler coming from the same remote time.
Many stations moved it to more remote time periods.
Indeed, many readers take great pleasure simply in identifying an echo from "remote times," be it a connection between Merlin and Gandalf, the philological roots of the woses in Sir Gawain's wodwos, or similarities between the battles of Fingolfin and Morgoth in The Silmarillion, and Arthur and the giant in The Faerie Queene.
A two term D.D.C. algorithm programmed on a remote real-time minicomputer adjusted the vapour flow period to effect V.P.C. control of a step disturbance in the feed.
