Example sentences of "[num] [noun] ago a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Forty years ago a Sunderland shirt-maker married a shipyard pattern-maker . |
| 2 | Six years ago a road accident left him severely injured . |
| 3 | It may not be , and Hakel and Reimer might have taken the opportunity to sow more seeds of doubt , or at least put the certified cause of death in an historical perspective : 100 years ago a recorded cause of death from heart disease ( except for congenital malformations and valve defects ) was barely known , yet ischaemic heart disease must surely have existed . |
| 4 | 100 years ago a legion of artists and craftsmen made the same journey . |
| 5 | Only 100 years ago a zoo meant a series of caged animals set up exclusively for recreation . |
| 6 | Certainly as far as we 're concerned at Traidcraft , when we started eight years ago a packet of coffee was two pound twenty five . |
| 7 | Nearly fifty years ago a posh , lanky young man packed his bags and made off into the undergrowth of England . |
| 8 | Cicely Hamilton commented in the course of a debate with G. K. Chesterton at Queen 's Hall in 1919 : ‘ Do you suppose that forty or fifty years ago a woman would have dared to stand up on a platform and say , without the slightest shame , that she was over thirty and unmarried ? |
| 9 | Three months ago a worker died and another was badly injured when a lorry ploughed into them on the hard shoulder . |
| 10 | Since the main Which ? magazine appeared more than 35 years ago a whole new breed of special interest publications have been spawned including Holiday Which ? , |
| 11 | Three years ago a Sao Paulo solicitor was applauded as he kicked a young would-be pickpocket to death . |
| 12 | Three years ago a tortoise of ours got killed like that and on just about this very spot . |
| 13 | Three years ago a study by officials at the Department of Industry apparently backed the idea . |
| 14 | Three years ago a group of have-nots , led by Mexico , blocked agreement on stiffer NPT rules for trade in nuclear materials because the nuclear powers would not agree to ban tests . |
| 15 | Two or three years ago a friend of mine who is a publisher applied to me for help in dealing with a complaint from a man who had bought one of his cookery books . |
| 16 | Just three years ago a French doctor , Professor Etienne-Emile Baulieu of the University of Paris , saw the launch of the pill he 'd researched for years . |
| 17 | Some sixty years ago a copy of Lady Dilke 's French Illustrated Books , extended to fifty-eight volumes , with nearly 10,000 additional illustrations , was offered for sale at £2,000 . |
| 18 | Two thousand years ago a sex manual written in China laid down a few guidelines for gauging a woman 's sexual characteristics from a careful study of her face . |
| 19 | Six to seven thousand years ago a warm spell , the ‘ climatic optimum ’ , brought southern European forests to Britain and dispersed ice from the Arctic Ocean . |
| 20 | Four thousand years ago a funeral pyre like this one was built for a woman who was either heavily pregnant or recently delivered of a child . |
| 21 | Four thousand years ago a funeral pyre like this one was built for a woman who was either heavily pregnant or who who had recently had of a child . |
| 22 | Twenty-five years ago a fire swept through the core of a pile manufacturing plutonium at Windscale , The row still rages . |
| 23 | Ten years ago a light beam passed down an optical fibre was reduced by 99 per cent to one per cent of its original strength after travelling just one kilometre . |
| 24 | Ten years ago a New Zealand company was given a licence to dig it out . |
| 25 | Ten years ago a group was formed in South Devon called The South Hams Smallholders Group . |
| 26 | Ten years ago a small group of woodworkers formed a co-operative , modelled on a halibut fishery in Alaska . |
| 27 | About ten years ago a near science block was built next to the main block . |
| 28 | Ten days ago a police bullet had hit the explosive which Terry Place had hidden in a carrier bag in the tunnel . |
| 29 | Twelve months ago a 41 year old man suffering from Parkinson 's Disease underwent a revolutionary operation . |
| 30 | Just 16 days ago a one-ton van bomb dumped at East London 's massive office development Canary Wharf also failed to explode although experts have been unable to find any fault . |