The phrase "distinctly behind" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to indicate that something is significantly behind something else in terms of progression, completion, or development. For example: "The project was distinctly behind schedule, which was causing a lot of problems."
Not that long ago athletes were distinctly behind-the-times hairwise.
A nerdy teenager at the time and distinctly damp behind the ears, I remember thinking: we don't get much of that back home!
Centered around a visual of a zombified, jumprope-wielding young girl, the rest of the screen fills up with unnervingly hallucinatory imagery, reminding us that there's often something distinctly unnerving behind AC's hypnotic, sugar-sweet songwriting.
Sam Cam followed close behind, looking distinctly more interested and engaged than she had in Leeds last Friday.
Before the start of this year's Six Nations Championship, Warren Gatland, the Wales coach, hinted that it took a distinctly second place behind a good World Cup in the autumn.
Omma delicata sp. nov. Body small; head distinctly wider posteriorly behind compound eyes.
This manuscript examines the genotypic basis behind distinctly different phenotypes which have been reported for arabidopsis mutant lines each annotated as abp1 knock-out/loss-of-function alleles.
What's distinctive here, though, is the marshalling of a huge arsenal of chart-pop dynamism behind the distinctly grown-up songs of a woman who doesn't want to be famous.
But why did Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his librettist, Emanuel Schikaneder, create a black character at all? Though encountering other races was not exactly an everyday occurrence in 18th-century Vienna, Mozart had come across one particular individual of Afro-Caribbean background years earlier, in a context that makes the motivation behind Monostatos distinctly intriguing.
Behind a distinctly unglamorous Web site, the company has a system to allow hundreds of branded footwear vendors to drop-ship direct to customers.
