Example sentences of "[noun pl] ago the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eighteen months ago the CBI suggested that the HSE take on a number of extra people to monitor the burgeoning biotechnology industry , but this has not been done . |
| 2 | Two months ago the government ordered the removal of all red stars from public buildings . |
| 3 | Three months ago the firm announced a £300m reorganisation , sorting the group into seven different areas . |
| 4 | but when we 've read those we 've got to look up what else Jesus said , remember a few months ago the passage we read from Luke thirteen and they will come from the East and the West and from the North and the South and will recline at the table in the Kingdom of God , they will come he says from all directions , we work and hold and these two scriptures intention , we 've got ta compare one with the other , then we 'll read also John in that tremendous vision in the book of revelation he would he says what he saw there , in chapter seven verse nine after these things I looked and behold a great multitude which no one could count from every nation and all tribes and peoples and tongues standing before the throne and before the lamb , clothe in white robes and palm branches were in their hands and they cried out with a loud voice saying salvation to our God who sits on the throne and to the lamb , a handful of people , tiny minority , John says it was a great number , a multitude which no one could count from every nation , from every ethnic group , from every tribe and , and , and , and race on the face of the earth there in God 's heaven how grateful you and I should be , if we are among that number , it 's God 's grace , it 's not that we 've deserved it , it 's not that we have been privileged by some genetic er process to have been born in a so called a nominally Christian country , it is all of God 's grace , it 's not what we have done or what we are , but we have been saved by his grace and just for a few moments this morning , I 'd like us to from this question that was put to Jesus to follow on and if you like get five propositions from it , it sounds complicated but it 's not . |
| 5 | Two months ago the company was confident that sponsorships would be in place by Christmas . |
| 6 | Just a few months ago the Queen Mother wore a Hartnell creation to the wedding of Lady Helen Windsor . |
| 7 | Until eighteen months ago Wiltshire was the most undermanned force in this country , and that 's not our figures , that was the Home Office formula which produced that , and because of that eighteen months ago the Home Secretary actually granted this force an extra sixty- seven policemen and he gave none to anybody else . |
| 8 | Six months ago the council called in the police to investigate claims that building materials had been misappropriated for private use . |
| 9 | I shop there a lot as it 's so handy for my offices , and I seem to recall that about six months ago the floristry section was moved from an upper floor where no one ever saw it right on to the Oxford Street frontage . ’ |
| 10 | Months ago the couple had bought tickets for a Benjamin Britten concert in Aldeburgh . |
| 11 | Fourteen months ago the family left Gloucestershire to visit Farash 's home country . |
| 12 | A few months ago the plant recruited its first workers — the men and women , mainly aged under 25 , whose minds and fingers are agile enough to turn out microscopic silicon chips by the hundreds of thousands . |
| 13 | Five months ago the castle was the subject of a second mortgage application for which Mrs Willies-Williams was sentenced to nine months in jail , suspended for two years , for attempted fraud . |
| 14 | Mayor , three months ago the E I D sub-committee Labour members rejected the Employment Action Scheme . |
| 15 | Five months ago the nation 's media mounted stepladders , physically and metaphorically , to get a better look at him . |
| 16 | Six months ago the auctioneers were showered with bids from rich Mexicans . |
| 17 | Luckily , 21-year-old Emma , was well enough to make the trip to St. Bart 's on Monday morning by train , said Lyn , — but a few months ago the situation would have been completely different . |
| 18 | So three months ago the club ended up with an efficient and honest chairman and secretary . ’ |
| 19 | Centuries ago the birds themselves chose Low Island as a sanctuary and the droppings over the years made it rich in guano — a fertiliser . |
| 20 | He explained that a couple of centuries ago the course was leased out as a rabbit farm and , well , ever since , the creatures have been hopping wild across the four courses . |
| 21 | Centuries ago the coracle would haul huge catches of salmon from the Wye . |
| 22 | Two days ago the Croats were given 24 hours to leave . |
| 23 | Ten days ago the AMF(L) Supply Company RAOC arrived in northern Turkey to support the multinational Allied Command Europe Mobile Force ( Land ) , ( AMF(L) ) , as part of the Logistic Support Battalion . |
| 24 | Just a few days ago the couple posted a Christmas present to their daughter which will arrive in South Africa in the next week . |
| 25 | Just 13 days ago the couple seemed happy enough at the New York premiere of Malcolm X , the controversial film about the black civil rights leader . |
| 26 | Two days ago the organisers of the NM English Open , to be played from August 16-19 at The Belfry , announced that their prize money would be increased from £250,000 to £400,000 . |
| 27 | Ten days ago the Home Office told which operates the sirens to dismantle the equipment , an instruction that angered Lincolnshire County Council . |
| 28 | Two days ago the sight would have amused him . |
| 29 | They were later reunited by the Red Cross , but two days ago the shelling became so bad they were forced to flee . |
| 30 | Simon had neither family nor friends and three days ago the parish council had begged Athelstan and Benedicta to visit the unfortunate . |