0 a time in the past that is not clearly remembered: --
History is not just about the dim and distant past, it's happening right now.
Criticism has been offered of the actions of the present occupants of those offices, because, in the dim and distant past, they held certain views about free imports.
This group, set up in the dim and distant past in 1998, now needs to be adapted to deal with the increasingly urgent development of the internal market.
Any differences which may have existed in the dim and distant past have surely long since disappeared.
If the civil servant who invented that phrase in the dim and distant past has a patent on it, he must have made a fortune.
In the dim and distant past he was a member of a previous government.
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.
But none of the criminal and violent acts committed by the prisoners who will be released occurred in the dim and distant past.
