Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] ago as " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suppose that many of you will have heard about my motoring experience a few weeks ago as I was travelling from Winfrith to Harwell . |
| 2 | A lost love or family tragedy had the same impact on a Ukrainian living 300 years ago as it does today on a 30-year-old singer living in Leeds . |
| 3 | — Iron Ladies in Stockton ( ) started out six years ago as just that , doing ironing . |
| 4 | It was as difficult for them to develop a public analysis of rape eight years ago as it is for them today publicly to acknowledge the extent of sexual abuse of girls and young women inside and outside the home . |
| 5 | She was apt to confuse the past with the present , talking of events that had happened forty or fifty years ago as though they had happened only the day before . |
| 6 | Trafalgar shares have slumped from a peak of £3.96 three years ago as the recession has bitten into profits . |
| 7 | Board director Colin Hargrave , who joined Alexon 18 months ago as retail development director , has been made redundant along with trading director Nick Wastnage . |
| 8 | In the village of Portlethen , some 15 miles outside Aberdeen , the main line station was closed many years ago as it was said to be uneconomic . |
| 9 | That was a long time ago as well . |
| 10 | The effects of the oil industry observed in this study are also consistent with long established observations on both experimental and human epidemics which Topley summarised 50 years ago as indicating that outbreaks of many infective diseases can be produced simply by ‘ movements of susceptible and infected hosts in relation to one another , and aggregations or dispersals of human or animal herds . ’ |
| 11 | And erm there are now only twenty five percent of butchers that there were ten years ago as well . |
| 12 | Pregnancy testing was as commonplace 4,000 years ago as it is today , although the results were more haphazard and far less reliable . |
| 13 | ‘ I last drafted Francis 's will twelve years ago as per his instructions and he returned it signed , everything in order . ’ |
| 14 | Hailed two years ago as one of the most important archaeological discoveries in Europe , the painted caves at Alave in northern Spain are decorated with images of animals , symbols and splashes of colour . |
| 15 | Jatinder came back to England two years ago as their son could not cope with the Indian climate . |
| 16 | This was a truly remarkable achievement for Chris , who was diagnosed two years ago as having medically untreatable tumours in his lungs . |
| 17 | This strategy was invented seven years ago as Mr Harrison , as he then was , saw Racal 's difficulties in competing with the defence industry giants even after the takeover of Decca . |