On the way home from the theater I remained under the spell of the musical's powerful evocation of a time that is not very distant chronologically but seems eons ago spiritually.
According to K. Josserand's dissertation on Mixtec language history, the dialects spoken in Coicoyán and Tlacotepec belong to different subgroupings of the Mixteca Baja, although the two communities are not very distant from each other.
As Melville wrote in his annotations in his copy of Chase's "Narrative": "All the sufferings of these miserable men of the Essex might, in all human probability, have been avoided had they immediately after leaving the wreck, steered straight for Tahiti, from which they were not very distant at the time.
In fact, so excessive was the zeal of the cultural police without uniform, that even the most fervent supporters of el Comandante ended up almost always refraining, just in case, from including any reference that was not very distant or indirect to the colossal figure in their pages.
If you've been distant, it make make your friend feel like s/he is not very important.
Since initial incomes in the distant past are not very different across countries, the current dispersion in per capita incomes on the vertical axis reflects differences in growth across countries in the very long run.
So maybe blogging — even mainstream blogging — isn't so very distant from zine-ing or punk-rocking — maybe it does represent a thread, however distant, of the Riot Grrrl legacy.
It is not a very distant world.
If the regional centre is not geographically very distant from the parental home, re-booking the mother for delivery there is relatively straightforward and overcomes the difficulty of not having the mother on site for early postnatal procedures on her child.
It was a hint of life in a place that still brims with memories of death, a reminder that even five years later, the attacks are not so very distant.
