The phrase "almost distant" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that feels nearly removed or far away, either physically or emotionally.
Example: "As I gazed at the horizon, the mountains appeared almost distant, shrouded in a veil of mist."
Alternatives: "nearly remote" or "virtually far away".
"Today is the 12th, the 31st is almost distant in terms of Albany's capacity to get resolution sometimes".
The saga of Isak and Inger (born with a harelip) and their hard times is by turns affecting and ponderous; the somewhat overheated first-person narrators of Hamsun's extraordinary early novels — "Hunger" and "Pan" — are replaced by a stately, almost distant third person.
When I discovered that an "almost distant relative" was an executive at Google's headquarters, I contacted her.
An example of things to come, OGLE-TR-56b is the most distant planet known, almost 5,000 light-years away, as well as being the hottest and closest to its parent star.That increase in range makes up for the fact that only planets with orbital planes edge-on to the earth's can be detected by the transit method.
And Thanksgiving, it goes without saying, looks almost infinitely distant.
But Mitchell's world was vanishing even as he wrote about it, and it now seems almost unimaginably distant from our own.
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.
The effect will be to reframe the classical grace of the Farley Building, which now seems almost monolithically distant from the street texture of New York.
