"in the distance" meaning in English

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
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          "ref": "2019 September 22, Miriam Jordan, “Refugee Cutbacks Could Isolate Rohingya Children in the U.S.”, in New York Times",
          "text": "While Hefzur was adjusting, conditions for the Rohingya in Myanmar, where his family was still living, were deteriorating. His parents described villages burning in the distance. They had to go, they informed him.",
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        {
          "ref": "1866, Lewis Carroll, chapter 2, in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland/Chapter_2)",
          "text": "After a time she heard a little pattering of feet in the distance, and she hastily dried her eyes to see what was coming.",
          "type": "quotation"
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        {
          "ref": "1860, Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White",
          "text": "It was, by my watch, nearly an hour and a half from the time of our leaving the station before I heard the sound of the sea in the distance",
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      "glosses": [
        "far away; a long distance away"
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      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "far away",
          "word": "au loin"
        },
        {
          "code": "la",
          "lang": "Latin",
          "sense": "far away",
          "word": "procul"
        },
        {
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "far away",
          "word": "ao longe"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "far away",
          "word": "a lo lejos"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "in the distance"
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  "lang_code": "en",
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          "text": "While Hefzur was adjusting, conditions for the Rohingya in Myanmar, where his family was still living, were deteriorating. His parents described villages burning in the distance. They had to go, they informed him.",
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        },
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          "text": "It was, by my watch, nearly an hour and a half from the time of our leaving the station before I heard the sound of the sea in the distance",
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      "glosses": [
        "far away; a long distance away"
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  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "far away",
      "word": "au loin"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "far away",
      "word": "procul"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "far away",
      "word": "ao longe"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "far away",
      "word": "a lo lejos"
    }
  ],
  "word": "in the distance"
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