Far in the distance, a neat line moves across the horizon, trailing puffs of cloud like a steam train.

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The Clinton Administration believes the threat of missile attack, if it exists at all, is far off in the distance.

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And so for many years that vision, that dream I think seemed very far off in the distance.

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Then far off in the distance came the report of a lone bugler, a WW II veteran in full uniform, whose notes echoed to rest on the graves of the fallen, but not forgotten.

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In the far distance we can see the dull glow of Puerto Ayora to our stern.

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Off to the port (left) side were the faint green tendrils of northern lights, as well as lightning in the far distance.

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The blue openings allow him to light up a couple of foreground fields and the skyline of Haarlem in the far distance.

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Pembrokeshire National Park stretches from Tenby in the south through St David's and Newport as far north as the outskirts of St Dogmaels - a distance of 180 miles.

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Gaia will detail the precise position, distance, movement, and composition of the brightest stars in the sky (out as far as the next galaxies such as Andromeda).

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