I was far off — years, in fact — but felt a certain sickening pull.
But that dream is for a far-off year and place -- Athens, say, or Paris.
"Today we buy time as our parents used to buy accommodation, as space to live in," they wrote, of the far-off year 2000.
The original Tomorrowland was opened in 1955 as part of the Disneyland theme park in California, showcasing what then was the far-off year of 1986.
The plan Congress passed in 1992 was intended, by the far-off year of 2000, to replace 10percentt of the gasoline and diesel fuel used by cars, pickups, vans and sport utility vehicles with something not made from oil.
You would probably forget all about the winter Olympics in Sapporo, and the summer games in Munich, and start punching numbers into your new HP-35 calculator in the vague attempt to calculate what crazy, far-off year this strange phenomenon occurs.
These parcels, which contained unspecified items of great personal significance to him, came with strict instructions as to when the recipient could open them: some were to be opened in a far-off year, like 2000; others on Mr. Antonakos's death; still others, never.
In the far-off year of 2034, a date that smacks more of George Jetson than Abe Beame and Hugh Carey, New York State taxpayers could still be paying off the tab for New York City's fiscal crisis of the 1970's.
Plantation 2000 was about a slave plantation in that far-off year 2000.
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Hollinghurst extends the biographical drama and farce into three far-off years: 1967, 1980 and 2008.
