One might, for example, pass into a timeless dimension and emerge at some remote period of the earth's history as young as before.

Other legends carried back its origin to a still more remote period.

Clearly at some period not very remote the hollow had been the scene of a conflagration, accidental or intentional.

Historically, the waterfront has been used for trading, fish industry, health and leisure since remote periods.

At all events, we can trace the science back to a very remote period of antiquity.

At some unimaginably remote period it had possessed them.

In the remote period of human history which we have been discussing it simply did not exist.

This shelf or valley appears to have suffered at some remote period from a terrible inundation.

There is no way to tell at this remote period in time.

It goes back to a very remote period of human civilization.