Example sentences of "[verb] a [adj] [noun] ago " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can only assume this was designed a long time ago , say roughly 1983 ; surely even Peter Snow must now realise that a Labour landslide is rather more likely than a Tory one . |
| 2 | ‘ Put it this way , I was approached a few months ago by a couple of guys in one of my clubs who said that they wanted to see the gaffer . |
| 3 | things are looking clearer now than they did you know a few weeks ago . |
| 4 | We still grow some of the varieties listed a hundred years ago many of which had already been improved by the 1890s , some favourites like ‘ White Lisbon ’ spring onions and ‘ Scarlet Globe ’ and ‘ French Breakfast ’ radishes were also established . |
| 5 | I 've had a couple of letters asking me whether I ever managed to give up smoking as I promised a few months ago . |
| 6 | But I think the political climate on that changed a few years ago , when there was the big influx of heroin onto the market … . |
| 7 | His work affects me the same way — which is why I bought that painting a few years ago . |
| 8 | All this under a Tory Government which admits its PSBR is to be double that proposed a few months ago . |
| 9 | ‘ Yes , it 's our centenary and we are charging the prices we charged a hundred years ago . ’ |
| 10 | Someone reported a long time ago that an old lady , on her deathbed , was heard to say : ‘ Weel , it will be a great blessing to hear at last the real truth of the Gowrie conspiracy ’ . |
| 11 | Over 900 of them said : ‘ It should have come a long time ago — very few people have done more for charity , public service and their Party than you have ’ . |
| 12 | Properties they say a few years ago are down by 25 to 30% , that with lower mortgage rates gives them a tremendous boost . |
| 13 | and what we 've got to do is er er as I said to Ed a little while ago , I mentioned a little while ago , we need to gather the other thin section |
| 14 | Apart from the considerations which I mentioned a few moments ago , it would indeed . |
| 15 | Er we have n't used very much of it this year I mean I think er I mentioned a few weeks ago the , the question of trips out perhaps in the spring to do fish and that , we could consider er we do n't want to just go er accumulating money for the sake of it erm , we want to get some benefit out of the money we 've got . |
| 16 | It might just be the voice of support at a meeting or the follow-up on a personal problem mentioned a few days ago . |
| 17 | Then , even as it dawned on her that the flowers had probably been placed there by lovers , so , as she looked up again into the dark eyes of the tall Czechoslovakian , she all at once knew why it was that her breath had caught a few seconds ago . |
| 18 | He 's given me a few jokes but only ones he used a long time ago ! ’ |
| 19 | The post of chief operating officer that the Foundation created a few months ago has been abolished . |
| 20 | The office of chief operating officer that OSF created a few months ago has been abolished . |
| 21 | Even if the order to which the Minister referred a few minutes ago is introduced , what can the Minister tell us about the Government 's thinking on what the timetable will be ? |
| 22 | The fact that a criminal offence occurred a long time ago does not absolve the wrong-doer from guilt , and justice must be done , whether it is 30 or 300 years later . |
| 23 | One classic er case that only occurred a few years ago and it was way before bonfire night , but erm , people working from home to try and make a little bit of pin money , a young lady had taken on the task of putting sparklers into five into a little bag for a particular manufacturer . |
| 24 | Kevin tried a few years ago and failed this time … he aims to make history … and if he does we 'll be there … |
| 25 | Child benefit is the only benefit which is in fact available to women , even then the government tried a few years ago to change that and to make it paid to the man . |
| 26 | They all know that the Bill has been brought to the House in this form only because of the catastrophe of what happened on the Bills that were guillotined a few years ago — the poll tax Bills . |
| 27 | He and I have had a series of meetings about the provision of the slip road , and he reminded me of an undertaking that I had given when Minister responsible for health matters a few years ago . |
| 28 | She had her blood test a few weeks ago . |
| 29 | Clearly , the hon. Gentleman was not listening a few moments ago when I quoted directly the Governor of the Bank of England saying that the conditions necessary to underpin a sustained recovery are now in place . |
| 30 | I thought that was a lesson we learnt a long time ago ! ’ |