Questions never bring full clarity about what happened in distant times.

So we take that to mean at some distant time in the future.

There were the footsteps again, seemingly more distant this time.

He looked through her to some distant time and place.

Whatever the dramas of those distant times, it all started to go wrong around 3.8 billion years ago.

But how could he know all the resources the men from a distant time held in reserve?

Thus ended a conversation which, at no very distant time, led to such grave results.

At some distant time there had been an enormous fall of rock.

"And will the empire still exist in that distant time?"

At some distant, unspecified future time, he said to himself.