He often sent missions to distant provinces to supervise discipline.

But his eye did not linger long on the distant provinces.

There was almost no teaching of local history, and instead children learned about distant mainland Chinese provinces that they could never visit.

You've seen what life's like in the distant provinces.

Scottish business leaders say they are angry at being treated like a distant province.

Some of them don't even speak Russian, they come from so many different distant provinces.

It was rare to meet anyone from a distant province, let alone another country.

The prospect of accompanying her husband to his distant province was a dreary one.

Another few years later, Tatja finds a rebellion in her distant provinces.

It is the army that transported the material needed for voting to the most distant provinces of this vast desert country.