0 a time in the past that is not clearly remembered:
Instead, descriptions of friction with the king, civil disobedience or electoral disputes were relegated to the dim and distant past.
In the dim and distant past it was considered virtuous to daub sheep with tar.
We are talking not of a technology relating to the dim and distant past.
I am referring to the dim and distant past.
We had some sort of stability with the gold standard way back in the dim and distant past.
But none of the criminal and violent acts committed by the prisoners who will be released occurred in the dim and distant past.
There is anecdotal evidence of maintenance in the dim and distant past by the agency's predecessor, by the water company and by the local authority.
In the dim and distant past he was a member of a previous government.
