Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] a [noun] ago " in BNC.
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| 1 | One way and another , it appears that the search for a new chief executive for IBM Corp is not going too well as one after another , the most fancied candidates declare that they are non-runners — so long after their names were first widely canvassed in the press that they leave the strong impression that they have considered or been considered for the job , but after having looked into it , decided that they would n't touch it with a bargepole : latest to declare his belated non-candidacy is former Hewlett-Packard Co chief executive John Young , who says he is ‘ definitely not a candidate ’ — ‘ He 's enjoying retirement , ’ said a Hewlett spokeswoman ; all attention is now focussed on the thought-to-be front runners that have n't ruled themselves out — Paul Stern , recently retired chairman and tough manager of Northern Telecom Ltd , who could be planning to repeat his double act at that company with another former IBMer , Edward Lucente , who has also just resigned from Northern Telecom ; the other two whose odds have shortened are George Fisher , chairman and chief executive of Motorola Inc , Morton Myerson , chairman of Perot Systems Corp , and Louis Gerstner , head of RJR Nabisco Co ; industry sources told Reuter that the name of Michael Armstrong keeps coming up within IBM — but he quit only a year ago , and has just taken the top job at Hughes Aircraft Co . |
| 2 | In fact , one of the gardeners was dismissed only a fortnight ago because it was thought he was taking them . |
| 3 | It is , it is , it 's re-opened about a week ago , having been shut for re-doing . |
| 4 | If the district registry had appreciated the urgency and the short period of the order without doubt they would have sought directions and the result would certainly have been that the appeal would have been set down at some other convenient centre or , as happened , in London at or before the beginning of this term and would have been heard within a few days , that is , the appeal would have been heard approximately a month ago . |
| 5 | ‘ Mr Jacobsen , ’ she said carefully , ‘ as I believe I intimated just a moment ago , I 'm just about to leave . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ And as I intimated just a moment ago , ’ his voice was coldly mocking as he threw her words back at her , ‘ I need a haircut . ’ |
| 7 | This year , I am being told that the test was not whether we could deliver our unprecedented number of detailed commitments , as I had thought , but whether we would do a lot more than we said we would do just a year ago . |
| 8 | Their increasing interest in the subject actually led to the pair 's first ever meeting just a year ago . |
| 9 | ‘ The will was made about a year ago and this is what it amounts to : ‘ The shop premises and stock and all assets pertaining to the business together with the contents of my studio excepting only my tube of Winsor blue to my niece and dear friend Cathy Carne ’ . ’ |
| 10 | He said : ‘ When I came here a month ago , they did n't have any confidence . |
| 11 | The Swiss underestimated the Scots mentality when we played there a year ago . |
| 12 | I started fishkeeping almost a year ago and I have a 3ft community tank , which is filtered by a Fluval 203 external filter . |
| 13 | We had last met over a year ago , when I went over to Paris to see an exhibition of the most wonderful Boucheron jewellery going back over a hundred years . |
| 14 | I owe him much in this regard and shall always be grateful for the interest and encouragement he gave to me on his visits to our school , in particular the visit he paid only a year ago when he addressed my staff and helped them all by his understanding and the depth of his practical knowledge and experience . |
| 15 | Not only have the Government disregarded the electricity supply industry 's disdain for that achievement , but they have sat idly by and watched collieries close which , in the past five years , have taken up a large part of that sum of money about which the Minister boasted just a moment ago . |
| 16 | You are a very different man from the frightened little scribe who arrived here a year ago . ’ |
| 17 | Two weeks in a semi-finished house , with a man who does n't give a damn about appearances have worked their magic , and I do n't know if I 'm Cinderella now or the pumpkin , but I 'm certainly not the obnoxious girl who arrived here a fortnight ago . |
| 18 | Their father , Patrick Hamilton , had died dramatically a year ago , blown up by an IRA car-bomb a few yards from what was then their home in Dublin . |
| 19 | I stopped going there a season ago too difficult to get a drink . |
| 20 | While I 'm on the subject , whatever happened to the Randy Hansen interview which was promised quite a while ago but never appeared ? |
| 21 | The wife of one prominent member of the British community in Seoul said : ‘ We would have hoped she 'd have picked something she had n't worn just a week ago . ’ |
| 22 | Produced by Kenith Trodd , She 's Been Away was a distinctive achievement to match Poliakoff 's and Ashcroft 's Caught On A Train nearly a decade ago . |
| 23 | Erm , I really feel that this consultation is coming more than a too late because we started on the slippery slope when the consortium was er first dreamed of o , you know about a year ago and set up in April and that really this is the sort of the inexorable next move , and this consultation is far far too late ! |
| 24 | He spoke out on the last day of Labour 's Scottish conference in Inverness , which ended with the party in better spirits than organisers could have dared hope even a week ago . |
| 25 | Information Consulting , while independent , was formed about a year ago by five former Arthur Andersen partners with financial backing from Saatchi and Saatchi , the advertising and consultancy group . |
| 26 | Does the Prime Minister not remember saying just a year ago on the steps of Downing street that the Conservative party was ’ fully united for the future ’ and is that not patently false now when , in the approach to the vital meeting at Maastricht , the Tory party is in a state of open warfare ? |
| 27 | Well I erm , I was , I was burgled about a year ago and I 'm am ex er , I 'm a retired criminal lawyer , and , but I , I felt that if I lived in the States and trained in the States and I carried a gun then and I felt very vulnerable in not having a gun because he , I was in my own home and he fist me with a knife |
| 28 | Church council treasurer John King said the parish had been unable to fly its St George cross since the lanyard broke about a year ago . |
| 29 | It seems quite a while ago now , but it 's about the last thing I remember . |
| 30 | ‘ You got here a week ago , you 'd 've cooked . ’ |