The phrase "isolated past" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to refer to a specific event or time period in the past that is isolated or disconnected from a larger context. Here is an example sentence: "The excavation of the ruins provided valuable insights into the isolated past of this ancient civilization."
This is in line with recent results (Czegledi et al., 2006), which indicated that current vaccines induced better protection against viruses that were isolated in past epizootics than against viruses that are currently circulating.
Here - to judge from MacLeod's fiction - the heirs of Scottish and Irish immigrants continue to work the land and sea, frail participants in Canadian modernity; isolated, conservative, past-haunted, many preserving into recent times the Gaelic language and songs of their forbears.
The first museum survey of Farmanfarmaian's work isolates the past 40 years from an illustrious and lustrous career.
In similar cases in the past, isolated tribes have been almost wiped out by contacts with missionaries and government officials.
Mukwaya reels off a list of much more scary viruses that have been isolated in the past 50 years from mosquitoes trapped on the tower.
Past isolated farmhouses, acres of cypress trees, herds of sheep -- maybe the very sheep who gave us that remarkable pecorino cheese!
There are already plenty of props and signs of how complete the experience could become: a riverside village washing station, rickety-looking bridges, surround-sound bird calls, an intricately carved chest, rudimentary paths past isolated huts or through a bustling village on Sulawesi.
Mr. Wali's pronouncement may be too categorical, but it corroborates the view of many that Mr. Karzai has become increasingly isolated over the past 16 months since the 2009 presidential election in which he was forced into a runoff by Western diplomats as well as his Afghan supporters.
The hpSahul populations in New Guinea and Australia have diverged sufficiently to indicate that they have remained isolated for the past 23,000 to 32,000 years.
This review provides insight into the nutritional value of mung beans and its sprouts, discussing chemical constituents that have been isolated in the past few decades, such as flavonoids, phenolic acids, organic acids, amino acids, carbohydrates, and lipids.
