Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] ago a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some months ago a gang of local youngsters asked if I could help them in this direction . |
| 2 | A few months ago a newspaper carried the story of a couple who had created a garden — now to be opened to the public — during the years that they were housebound , caring for sick relatives . |
| 3 | George Lansbury , speaking at Shoreditch Town Hall in January 1924 , reminded the monarch that ‘ Some centuries ago a King stood against the common people and he lost his head . ’ |
| 4 | For instance , some years ago a patient came to the out-patient department complaining of severe bouts of depression . |
| 5 | Some years ago a man-hole was built behind the retaining wall . |
| 6 | Some years ago a humbucker was designed for Gibson that has a base plate which looks like a printed circuit board . |
| 7 | Ancient Egypt , rather than Ancient Rome , was used to fine effect by Agatha Christie in Death Comes as the End and I have even reviewed , most favourably , some years ago a novel in which the great Aristotle , no less , was the sleuth . |
| 8 | He rubbed his chin , ‘ Some years ago a platelayer named Jed Knighton opted out of the rat race and became what I suppose you 'd call a tramp . |
| 9 | Some years ago a man named John Powell wrote a book entitled Why Am I Afraid To Tell You Who I Am ? |
| 10 | Some years ago a presenter at a seminar on project management referred to the Taylor Woodrow logo and said he had often wondered who was on the other end of the rope . |
| 11 | Some years ago a number of philosophers of science and some scientists had the vision of a unified science in which all the separate disciplines would be integrated within a set of all-embracing , mutually coherent theories . |
| 12 | Only a few years ago a drug 's prospects were easy to calculate . |
| 13 | A few years ago a friend told me that he once started counting them . |
| 14 | Whereas a few years ago a mainframe computer would have been essential to perform corpus processing , a desktop computer now suffices . |
| 15 | I remember a few years ago a lady bought a jumper to the knitting club , displaying it proudly and saying : ‘ it 's just some out of the washing machine ’ . |
| 16 | A few years ago a minute fossil only about 2 mm long was recovered from limestones of Ordovician age , and christened Janospira . |
| 17 | Occasionally the enquiry becomes public knowledge ; a few years ago a copy of the authority for an enquiry into a well-known high street retailer appeared on the front page of a national newspaper . |
| 18 | However , there is a great deal of public confusion about the nature of black holes : only a few years ago a television serial depicted astronauts landing on the surface-of one ! |
| 19 | A few days ago a farmer from Mt Darwin , the ‘ operational area ’ , came to in lunch . |
| 20 | A few days ago a woman woke up just as she was about to be stuffed with the previous day 's New York Post and varnished with embalming fluid by an undertaker . |
| 21 | A few weeks ago a friend took me back to Dieniolen , near Bangor . |
| 22 | It 's very much concerned with the training and Ministry of Elders and a few weeks ago a part of our programme we held a very successful and lively meeting on the subject of church membership . |
| 23 | He said : ‘ After I lost my keys a few weeks ago a locksmith replaced the tumblers but it was n't enough to stop the door being opened . |
| 24 | Six years ago a road accident left him severely injured . |
| 25 | 100 years ago a legion of artists and craftsmen made the same journey . |
| 26 | Only 100 years ago a zoo meant a series of caged animals set up exclusively for recreation . |
| 27 | Certainly as far as we 're concerned at Traidcraft , when we started eight years ago a packet of coffee was two pound twenty five . |
| 28 | 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 ? |
| 29 | Three months ago a worker died and another was badly injured when a lorry ploughed into them on the hard shoulder . |
| 30 | 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 . |