be light years away

be light years away
to be a very long time in the future.

A cure for all kinds of cancer is still light years away.

Scientists are light years away from understanding (= it will be a very long time before scientists understand) the human brain.

(often + from + doing something)

New idioms dictionary. 2014.

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