They must have evolved from rough and careless scratches in the still more distant past.
Finally, for some perspective, a book about the more distant past and one about the future.
Two other exhibitions in Chelsea unearth very different parts of the more distant past.
Dynastic objects from the more distant past are incomparably rarer in the Arab world than in China.
And songs written for new rock musicals tend to be months, often years, behind the current pop moment, so they often look to the more distant past.
There is even a glimmer of a more distant past: the resurrection of shuttered icons like Tavern on the Green and the theater district standby Gallagher's.
Beyond the January intake for those who died three years earlier, two other annual updates rescue overlooked figures from the more distant past – many of them women.
Regardless of their respective identities in the more distant past, by the seventh century these lands shared a common language, Aramaic.
All three are of course incontestably part of the west now, but that doesn't mean we ignore the recent, or more distant, past".
When was it exactly that the recent past slipped into the more distant past and began to seem so poignantly out of reach?
And it keeps floating, as Oscar's memories of his recent past start to collide against memories of his more distant past, particularly his childhood with Linda.
