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Discover LudwigThe phrase 'distant for' is not correct or usable in written English.
You may be referring to the phrase 'distant for', which is usually used in the context of feeling emotionally disconnected from someone or something, such as in the phrase "I feel distant from my family". An example sentence using the phrase in this context would be: "I'm feeling increasingly distant from my best friend since she moved away."
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thanks NICK PAUMGARTEN: It's like ten years distant for starters.
The global economic crisis was distant for a day.
(He attributes the company's failure to "weak management" too distant for him to watch closely).
Schools are too distant for parents to attend conferences or volunteer in classes and school activities.
As Bob Copper emphasises, the past was not so distant for his father's generation.
That's far too distant for there to be any connection between them.
A return to boom-time dividends remains distant for bank investors in the United States.
Peru's Camisea field is too distant for fuel to be brought in by pipeline.
The shapes are just too blurred and too distant for me to be sure.
There are cliches either truncated ("the dim and distant", "for the foreseeable") or tweaked ("It was, at first sight, love").
The stock was too far distant for him to see their condition, only that they were black baldies.
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