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After we trade rides on the two far-distant generations of inflatables, he floats off in the sunset towards Skardu.

Richard Bangs: The Pakistan Osama bin Laden Never Knew, Part 2 Richard Bangs 2011

After we trade rides on the two far-distant generations of inflatables, he floats off in the sunset towards Skardu.

Richard Bangs: The Pakistan Osama bin Laden Never Knew, Part 2 Richard Bangs 2011

And that's because it is rendered unrecognizable by its powerful association with a primitive, far-distant past.

Review of "Fur, Fortune, and Empire," by Eric Jay Dolin Kirk Davis Swinehart 2010

"While the college student has been learning a little about the barbarous and petty squabbles of a far-distant past," he wrote, "or trying to master languages which are dead...the future captain of industry is hotly engaged in the school of experience, obtaining the very knowledge required for his future triumphs."

Now College is the Break Eric Felten 2011

In the far-distant future, anywhere from 200 to 1,000 years from today, Mars could be much more Earth-like than today.

SETI Institute: Life at the SETI Institute: Adrian Brown -- The Time for Mars is Now SETI Institute 2010

And that's because it is rendered unrecognizable by its powerful association with a primitive, far-distant past.

Review of "Fur, Fortune, and Empire," by Eric Jay Dolin Kirk Davis Swinehart 2010

In The Sirens of Titan Kurt Vonnegut imagines that in a far-distant future, the past has to be housecleaned:

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Its surf is rarely rough, its water constantly warm and the sole-massaging sand stretches in a wide, welcoming wedge to a far-distant surprise of rocks behind which spreads another seeming never-ending arc of yellow sand to La Manzanilla.

Mexico's endless Pacific beach: sun, surf, sand, seafood and solitude 2009

With each step, his body quickened for her, while memories of a far-distant past bombarded him.

Dreams of a Dark Warrior Kresley Cole 2011

Anti-imperialists like Mark Twain charged that acquiring a far-distant colony marked a radical shift in U.S. foreign policy from peaceful neutrality to belligerent interventionism.

Between War and Peace Col. Matthew Moten 2011