"existed over the centuries as a world apart"
"preserved because they inhabited a place apart"
"tiny isolated villages remote from centers of civilization"
"an obscure village"

"scientists felt they were a group apart"

"These towns are many miles apart"
"stood with his legs apart"
"born two years apart"

"these problems apart, the country is doing well"
"all joking aside, I think you're crazy"

"they grew apart over the years"
"kept apart from the group out of shyness"
"decided to live apart"

"had a feeling of being set apart"
"quality sets it apart"
"a day set aside for relaxing"

"people can't tell the twins apart"

"he took his father's watch apart"
"split apart"
"torn asunder"