The phrase "as distant time" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to refer to a time that is far away or removed, but the phrasing is awkward and unclear.
Example: "As distant time passed, the memories began to fade."
Alternatives: "in the distant past" or "in a far-off time".
Harvard was founded in 1636 — we are as distant, time-wise, from "The Importance of Being Earnest" as they were from Martin Luther's Ninety-five Theses.
And bohemia might seem as distant in time as nickel cups of coffee.
Uninspiring art territory, perhaps, but surprises here include an animated Kinetic sculpture by Lin Emery and a bunch of proficient minimal paintings by artists as distant in time and temperament as Robert Mangold, Robert Goodnough, Richard Haas and Vincent Longo.
These days it is rare to see multigenerational art exhibitions, let alone one encompassing the work of artists as distant in time (if not temperament) as Lucien Freud, Egon Schiele, Chuck Close, Tom Friedman, Emily Eveleth, Vito Acconci, Cindy Sherman, Joan Semmel and Catherine Opie, to name a few of the more than 30 artists whose work is included.
The concept is as distant as a time when there really were party bosses, people like Thomas Pendergast, whose machine ran Kansas City when Harry Truman was a senator (bosses often came with "machines"), or Chicago bosses like Edward Kelly, in the Roosevelt era, or Richard J. Daley, in the Eisenhower-Kennedy-Johnson-Nixon era.
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.
Bradley, 53, who has been the national team coach for four years, was reading the mood as players arrived from distant time zones.
Over at Bafta, this is the year of Wolf Hall – which already feels, in TV terms, almost as distant as Tudor times.
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.
NASA's Solar Probe Plus, planned for launch in 2018, will come within about 3.7 million miles of the sun's surface – more than 40 times as distant as Lovejoy's encounter.
Most of the guests, however, seem to have traveled from distant times and spaces, as far as 19th-century Europe, to be in attendance.
