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How to use distant past in a sentence

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There are many facts pointing to sweeping climatic changes in the Earth's distant past.
By their regular performance, the words are remembered from one generation to the next, and they convey beliefs and ideas from the distant past.
The urban folkways of New York City, for all its highly cultivated habits of historical amnesia, have strong linkages to the distant past.
If blame were to be justly apportioned, it would have to extend into the distant past of American foreign policy formation.
This little ditty oft quoted by my granddad while shaving with his cut-throat razor came winging its way from out of my dim and distant past.
Some wild tribes of the distant past no doubt did follow the practice of killing innocent people in revenge for the death of one of their men.
The ronin's distant past explores the conflict between an honorable samurai heritage and the financial worries of masterless ronin.
In the past, especially the distant past, the saints were venerated as prodigies, miracle-workers, intercessors, protectors.
A few were downright bloody-minded, seeing little difference between their call up and the press gangs of Britain's distant past.
Eggs hatching from diapause introduce to current environments species or genotypes laid at times in the distant past.
They are postcards from a very distant past, putting faces on people who lived centuries ago.
These stories could have come from any of the tabloids from the last few weeks, though actually they belong to the distant past.
It always returns as pangs of memories about mirth and joy veiled by a distant past.
Other planets and moons in the solar system have been volcanically active in the distant past.
However, if liquid water flowed on Mars in the distant past, the climate might have been very different from what it is today.
In the not too distant past, the best abstaining customers could hope for were coffee, tea, juice, a soda, milk and plain old ice water.
In the not too distant past social conventions rather than laws would have governed this process.
The events we are talking about did not take place in some dark, distant past.
That is all the truer where such information concerns a person's distant past.
Our work on this claim is a journey into the far distant past of our people.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Emery, carborundum and Alundum wheels are developed from the grindstone of the distant past.
It is not your privilege as a nation to speak of a distant past.
Today, for instance, I am particularly oppressed by one memory of a distant past.
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