Example sentences of "[verb] [be] a [noun] ago " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was taken aback , and more confused than he 'd been a moment ago . |
| 2 | The second is that , in fact , direct democracy could be a great deal more widely practised than it actually is , and that some modern technological developments have made it easier to implement than it might have been a century ago . |
| 3 | She was no longer trembling , as she had been a minute ago . |
| 4 | And we ourselves became different people from those we had been a minute ago , when we were teasing Filimon the goat or getting into a fight with Pechonkin 's street gang . |
| 5 | One may however ask whether those in the action sample who said that the strain was less than it had been a year ago attributed this to the effects of the Home Support Project . |
| 6 | Besides , Liza was no longer the stunningly attractive girl she had been a year ago . |