distant past

The deepest sediments were laid down in the distant past, while more recent sediments were nearer the surface.

When nigh fell, he would make his home in a tent-like bamboo shed. Oh, that is something of distant past!

Even if alternative life does not exist now, it might have flourished in the distant past before dying out for some reason.

Elves, goblins, and trolls seem to be the timeless creations of the distant past, but gremlins were born in the 20th century.

Those events in a far-distant past, hidden in the darkness of primitive mankind's history, are no longer of any concern for our day.

when night fell, the duckling raiser would make his home in a tent-like bamboo shed. oh, that is something of the distant past!

In the beginning, in a far distant past of Earth history, humans and animals used to cohabit very lovingly and peacefully.

In the distant past, climate variations may have shaped the very nature of our species.

In the dim and distant past, picking the best stocks was just seen as being clever; now that skill is known as "alpha" .

In my mind, it is possible to envision a world without extreme poverty, where imaginations of poverty will be of the distant past.

Instead, I evaluate myself based upon what's going on in my life right now, not some distant past version of me.

In the garden of memory, I industriously take care of the beautiful things I once sow. There is no distant past nor near future.

They think that the oil under the surface of the earth originated in the distant past, and was formed from living things in the sea.

They have remained a myth, a reminder of a distant past mankind dares not remember. And with good reason.

As he lay dying, Yoda shed some light on Luke's distant past: there was another Skywalker.

In short, quasar activity, like star formation, was more vigorous in the distant past, a third sign that we live in relatively boring times.

In the not-too-distant past, a developing nation tended to be seen as a country that lacked access to modern technology.

There was a time in the not too distant past when no one used chemicals to clean.

Afukaka told me a story of palisaded villages and raids in his people's distant past.

That indicates that human evolution had been slower in the distant past, Harpending explained.

one undersea ridge south of the Nicobars was once, he suspects, a piece of Sumatra that sunk in the distant past.

They still function, but most travelers believe them only to be remnants of the distant past.

Nadi is awaiting his universe, just as CM awaited his in the distant past.

Mars landers and overs were designed to look for signs of liquid water that may have flowed on Mars in the distant past.

In yixing, once had such a nation, they live in the distant past and looking forward to the brighter future.

My birthday already felt like the distant past.

Hawks says genetic analysis will provide a much richer picture of life in the distant past.

NASA's last two rover, Spirit and Opportunity, found convincing evidence of environments that were habitable in the distant past.

Eject the baggage and commit to working for a new employer no matter what things you have been through in the recent or distant past.

The frontal cortex may therefore be better suited to the task of retrieving memories that were encoded in the distant past.

For Gorbachev, the horrors of the Stalin era were in the distant past.

BOB DOUGHTY: Chad Harbach says that in school, literary studies often involved books from the distant past.

Miss, is a distant past came from the nursery rhyme, fuzzy sounds of tender with the most vivid childhood memories.

Note the the Expires date value is set to a date in the distant past so that it will always be refreshed.

While they are also aware of a great love they had shared at some point in the distant past.

Don't we all have a sneaking feeling that the weather was sunnier, TV shows funnier and cake-shop buns bonnier in the not-very-distant past?

When taken simply as history it is thrown into the distant past and becomes dead and inert.

In the distant past , they existed as independent organisms.

But before diving into what the near future holds, let's resurface what the distant past once promised.

In the not so distant past, anybody who could pony up the listing fee would secure shelf space in China.

I crossed into North Korea for the first time in my life to witness what should have been the distant past.

A further confirmation comes from the distant past.

It is more important to be aware that both surnames and forenames are subject to variations in spelling, and not only in the distant past.

brings to life our memories of the distant past.

Not only do these juries fit the same definition, but they derive, ultimately and in the distant past, from the same origins.

It could - and had, in the not-too-distant past - cause the government to ban all other types of church gatherings.

Infringements made in the distant past are accepted because no contemporary complains of a loss.

But this distant past will mainly be seen in infrared light.

That bias now is in the distant past.

In addition to illuminating the distant past, these simulations may point to methods for sustaining natural resources in the future.

I often hear of people recalling incidents from their early childhood, but my dim and distant past is very dim indeed to me.

the distant past beyond memory.

In spite of all we have learned from space flights, the moon is still a riddle from the distant past-and will be for a long time to come.

For starters, it is a relic from a distant past.

But until recently, no method has been shown to affect memories formed outside these windows, such as ones from the distant past.

Later, these rocks proved that at one time in the distant past the Antarctic was covered by plants.

Take a political cheating scandal from the not-too distant past, for example.

Many of you have been a tulip in your distant past;

The key to that secret lies in the distant past

ruins that once were palaces in the distant past

If we seek solace in the prisons of the distant past

In the dim and distant past