The phrase "as distant as three" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a comparison of distance, indicating that something is as far away as a distance of three units, which could refer to miles, kilometers, or any other measure of distance.
Example: "The stars in the night sky can be as distant as three light-years from Earth."
Alternatives: "as far as three" or "as remote as three".
DECam is particularly sensitive to red and infrared light, to better study cosmic objects as distant as eight billion light-years away.
It gets as close as 180 million km from our star, and as distant as 840 million km.
Cis-regulatory Runx binding sites have been found in proximal promoter regions, as distant as a few thousand base pairs from the start methionine, in introns, and even within the coding region of genes whose transcription they regulate [ 29- 31].
All three governments talk about reining in spending, but they are composed of weak coalitions with limited scope and limited willpower to do so.Financial markets now pencil in dates as distant as 2009-11 before the three big countries are all safely inside the euro zone.
That should be long enough to bridge the gap until its successor, the James Webb Space Telescope, is sent to a perch almost a million miles from Earth — four times as distant as the Moon.
As late as the seventeenth century, Turkish pashas still ruled in Budapest and Belgrade, Turkish armies were besieging Vienna, and Barbary corsairs were raiding lands as distant as the British Isles and, on one occasion, in 1627, even Iceland.
Even at moments of remembrance the origins of World War One seem as distant as the fall of Rome.
Instead, we try to make the outputs of the two models as distant as possible to ensure that even a noisy measurement has a good chance of discriminating between them.
At the other side of its orbit, it is 84 billion miles away, 30 times as distant as Pluto.
Continuing north, Cindy brought over 5 in (125 mm) of rain to areas as distant as Salisbury, Maryland.
