Example sentences of "[vb pp] a [noun] ago " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was disclosed a week ago that the Frenchman Laurent Fignon had failed a test after a race in The Netherlands last month . |
| 2 | In the words of Zohreh Tabatabai , Chief of Public Services of the United Nations in New York ; ‘ If this had come a year ago , we would have said ‘ no way ’ . |
| 3 | David Sutherfield — who was a political counsellor at the US embassy in east Beirut until American diplomats were evacuated a month ago — arrived here over the weekend in the company of another American official for talks with Hussein Husseini , the Speaker of the Lebanese Parliament . |
| 4 | When the first draft of Li 's report was presented a fortnight ago it incorporated many of the demands for faster reform voiced earlier this year by China 's elder statesman , Deng Xiaoping . |
| 5 | In particular , an effect will only now be discernible for breast cancer at a young age , high doses of hormone will seem to have higher risk , and new studies will indicate stronger effects than those done a decade ago . |
| 6 | They walked back towards the houses , the clownish little man and the thin child — watching him , Nick thought he looked thinner than he had done a month ago . |
| 7 | That might have been written a week ago following the extraordinary dispute over a young girl 's ear . |
| 8 | Benjamin reports that his classmates openly say things which were never said a year ago . |
| 9 | A RARE lesser-crested tern has reappeared at Minsmere , Suffolk -more than 200 miles from the Northumbrian colony where it was last seen a fortnight ago . |
| 10 | A HUSBAND buried a year ago is exhumed by his wife every day ‘ to enjoy the sunshine ’ , says a newspaper in Kampala , Uganda . |
| 11 | Would you have thought a year ago that you would be spending your next name-day in Paris ? |
| 12 | The beautifully illuminated Gondola , which was so greatly admired a year ago , will recommence nightly voyages . |
| 13 | Another time I shall talk about taxes , which , as we said in our election broadcast a week ago , we plan to reduce by being careful with your money — another good idea that no-one else had thought of . |
| 14 | He was an incredibly fit old man , whose wife had died a year ago . |
| 15 | And then she read , in a copy of The Stage that happened to be turned in her direction , a paragraph about him which made it clear that the wife whom he was talking about in this present tense had died a year ago , and that he had had a row of flops in London . |
| 16 | OPENED a century ago next week the Bowes Museum is obviously a North-East and National tour de force . |
| 17 | Referring to it as an artificial " pampered velveteen system " , the union journal was scathing about its " pretentions " : The small office in Edinburgh called the Caledonian Press … was opened a year ago , under the patronage of many of the nobility and members of the learned professions : yet with all its boasting about promoting the employment of women … and opening up a fresh field … to the " surplus female population " … it actually employs fewer women than any simple respectable milliner , of whose philanthropy the world takes little note . |
| 18 | This material was bought a year ago for £750 but is now obsolete and would therefore only fetch a scrap price of £50 . |
| 19 | Chris Hani , secretary-general of the Communist Party , was assassinated a month ago . |
| 20 | The laughter had stopped a while ago and , ever since , Lydia 's imagination had been giving her a hard time . |
| 21 | The West Yorkshire Low Pay Unit found recently that , while part-time work was increasing in their area , women were actually being paid a lower percentage of local full-time wages than they had received a decade ago . |
| 22 | With this in mind , FoE cites the Department of the Environment 's refusal to publish its report on technologies for reducing nitrogen oxide emissions from power stations , which was completed a year ago , but has never been made public . |
| 23 | Fire Noise was formed a year ago ; a few jugglers and drummers got together . |
| 24 | Formed a year ago the group is one of 14 similar bodies set up by the North East Wales TEC to examine common issues experienced in specific sectors . |
| 25 | Recruits are wanted for the Lockwood Lions jazz band which was formed a year ago . |
| 26 | Because as recognized a century ago by Ravenstein ( 1885 , 1889 ) most movement takes place over shorter distances , migration 's role in population change becomes more important as the spatial scale of analysis descends . |
| 27 | more patients than were being treated a year ago ? |
| 28 | It is ironic that it has taken until the dawn of the 21st century to realise that the best methods of utilising — and hence preserving — our woodlands are those employed a millennium ago . |
| 29 | The breed originated from the Jutland Black Pied , which was known a century ago as a hardier but less productive type of the black pied lowland group and had been bred in Denmark for a very long time . |
| 30 | When an election for the state assembly was set a year ago , after five years of direct rule from New Delhi , the militants threatened to kill voters as well as candidates . |