Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adv] [adj] [noun] ago " in BNC.
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| 1 | and he made it , you see I mean i it cost over twenty years ago told me I think those were too small . |
| 2 | It happened exactly 10 years ago to the day . |
| 3 | Anyone considering the venue a rather incongruous one for startling political imagery and prototype ‘ vehicles ’ for those with and without power in society ( the police on one side , immigrants and the homeless on the other ) , has obviously not got the message the Fundació has aimed to get across since it opened exactly two years ago : that it is not just about Tàpies , but has a wider and more challenging agenda . |
| 4 | Derives its name from the central Persian village where it evolved over 200 years ago , and is a more delicate and sensuous variation of the mina-khani composition . |
| 5 | It started almost 70 years ago in 1923 when John Moores sank £50 into a part-time football-pools venture . |
| 6 | ‘ There is evidence that the market in pubs , hotels and restaurants has been picking up — we believe it bottomed out six months ago — and that is another welcome move in bringing purchasers out again , ’ he said . |
| 7 | The actions of Timex in Dundee exude an air of pre-meditation rather reminiscent of Rupert Murdoch 's at Wapping : even down to the fortified perimeter installed by the new management team after it took over 18 months ago . |
| 8 | Ferranti is now convinced that it was the victim of fraud perpetrated by International Signal and Control which it took over two years ago . |
| 9 | WH SMITH has dropped its legal action against five directors it dismissed in August from Our Price Music , the record retailing chain it took over three years ago . |
| 10 | With losses amounting to £71m ( $137m ) in Italian life insurance , Guardian Royal Exchange , a British insurance company , is shedding two of three Italian subsidiaries it bought nearly two years ago . |
| 11 | Certainly the AgriBusiness side of it looks less rosy than it did even two years ago . |
| 12 | By selling 12 times as much wine as it did only five years ago , Australia outsells the US , and with the exchange rate currently working in our favour , prices are getting cheaper all the time . |
| 13 | Unless it can effect a remarkable recovery , the factory may well disappear back into the bleak and sodden marshes of Essex from which it emerged nearly 60 years ago . |