The phrase "almost as distant" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to compare the distance of two things, suggesting that one is nearly as far away as the other.
Example: "The stars in the night sky seemed almost as distant as the memories of my childhood."
Alternatives: "nearly as far" or "practically as remote".
But Madrid's last visit (2002) is almost as distant as Dortmund's (1997).
The reason Wenger has been ushered towards stepping down, of course, is that those feats started to seem almost as distant as Huddersfield's titles.
Mr. Salinger's postwar New York looks almost as distant as Edith Wharton's in the face of current films and books derived from his story.
Over at Bafta, this is the year of Wolf Hall – which already feels, in TV terms, almost as distant as Tudor times.
Given the clubs' league positions, the era when English football supremacy was a parochial affair played out across Stanley Park now seems almost as distant as 1899 and the last derby featuring the pair in the relegation zone.
The time when photographs by Jacob Riis, the journalist and social reformer, had to be turned into wood engravings in order to be printed in The New York Tribune seems almost as distant as the time, only a few years ago, when copiers and printers were entirely different machines, when combining text and illustration meant an exacting outing with scissors and paste and a bottle of Wite-Out.
But the 5c, its innards almost identical to last year's iPhone 5, will remain nearly as distant a dream for many gadget-lovers in emerging countries as the more expensive 5s.
From its home at the dead end of a dirt road lined on one side with an amber field of corn and on the other with the green expanse of ripening soybeans, the bridge has become a modest tourist draw to Mulvane, a town of about 6,000 a half-hour south of Wichita and almost equally distant from the Atlantic as it is from the Pacific.
Technology makes it possible to observe and react to a distant readership almost as accurately and immediately as an actor can respond to their audience in a theatre.
The blocks I saw in Trondheim were both of heavenly delicacy and uncanny in their beige-tinted solidity and could have come from the distant past almost as easily as from present.
They seem written from the outside looking sharply in; almost as if Ms. Cooke herself were a distant relative of the Bostons.
