Sentence examples for nearly as distant from inspiring English sources

Yet somehow the old fellow is not nearly as distant or imposing as he seems to those on other shores.

But the 5c, its innards almost identical to last year's iPhone 5, will remain nearly as distant a dream for many gadget-lovers in emerging countries as the more expensive 5s.

What made the work extraordinary, they said, was the nearly simultaneous discovery of dozens of other quasars that are nearly as distant, allowing scientists to begin piecing together a kind of census of regions of the universe that were once entirely inaccessible.

Nearly as distant as Cobain's raspy voice on "Milk It," where he admits, "I am my own parasite / I don't need a host to live".

Before the light from that explosion reached the Hubble Space Telescope, it had to pass a cluster of galaxies that sit in Hubble's line of sight, in the foreground — "foreground," of course, being a relative term, since the intervening cluster is about five billion light-years from Earth, or about thirty billion trillion miles, and the supernova is nearly twice as distant.

In a distant era nearly as faded as when men wore fedoras to arenas, Knicks games made a meaningful contribution to the MSG Network.

We find that even for highly recombining species (e.g. Streptococcus pneumoniae or Helicobacter pylori), selection on weak interactions between distant mutations is nearly as efficient as for an asexual species, likely because homologous recombination typically transfers only short segments.

You might think that if it were ten times as distant as Uranus and nearly the same size, it should be only 100 times fainter, since brightness falls off as one over the distance squared.

Of no less importance is the fact that nearly all of the newly assigned genes were originally identified as distant homologs of previously characterized genes with distinct but related functions.

The magnitude of discounting for conditions that may occur over time, while considerable, is not nearly as great as for those conditions that occur only in the distant future.

The "ultimate aim" is receding into the distant future.Donald Tsang may be popular, but not nearly as popular as competitive politics.