Little Neck clams, while decent enough, ran a distant second.
The minimally furnished, wood-floored rooms have a cool, sparse style; some have decent views of the distant city skyline.
Paying for a child's education and setting aside enough for a decent retirement have become distant dreams.
Paul Lund also had a relatively decent upbringing; his mother was a dour and distant woman who left most of the child rearing to nannies, but his family was large, affluent, and well respected.
He said Miliband had "thrown the baby out with the bathwater", and that Labour was endangering its link to millions of decent working people when Westminster politics was viewed as distant and irrelevant by a growing section of the population.
In this long season, that seems as distant as Jack Kemp's stubborn inclination to do the decent thing.
Edric is questioning the inertia that allows environmental degradation to go on unchecked: Quinn and Anna, though basically decent, are trapped in a network of yes-men working for a distant, faceless "Executive".
Even cable television providers, while not always providing a decent signal, can in many cases disconnect you simply with the flick of a distant switch.
Star Trek Beyond doesn't go that far beyond what we might expect: a very decent, watchable franchise episode which is marooned for quite a long time on a distant rocky planet.
But over all, he writes, even the distant-but-not-impossible prospect of a takeover should provide a decent floor for Dell's stock price.
