remote time
Example Sentences
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It is, as you said, a 'superb evocation of a remote time and place'.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 2, 2012
The glory that is being celebrated is not of this day, but of some more remote time.
From Time Magazine Archive
The original foundation of the temple must date back to a remote time: the work of some of the early builders is in fact referred to in the inscriptions on the present structure.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" by Various
Zoölogists who see these wonderful fossils are at once struck with their modernity and the little change that has taken place in certain stocks since that far remote time.
From Climatic Changes Their Nature and Causes by Ellsworth Huntington
Most of the process by which this transformation is made, is hidden from us in the remote time when language was framed; but the same tendency may be daily observed in children.
From Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson
