Example sentences of "[adv] a [adj] [noun] ago " in BNC.
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| 1 | The former vice-president of Liber and managing director of Almqvist & Wiksell Förlag , Maria Curman , left her posts suddenly a few months ago . |
| 2 | Such obtuseness would have been common enough a few years ago . |
| 3 | The whole school was closed down a few years ago . |
| 4 | And so we did this and we had this bungalow at Mablethorpe which is still running , we 've been down , we went down a few weeks ago . |
| 5 | Dollar interest rates cracked the price of gold down a dozen years ago when they were hoisted to 20 per cent . |
| 6 | They are oh I do n't ken when but they must you ken obviously a long time ago story . |
| 7 | That was the gist of what the Air Force chief of staff said , thinking out loud a few weeks ago . |
| 8 | " He should have done so a long time ago . |
| 9 | Mother Bernie had said so a long time ago and all Preston 's life 's experiences since then had born it out . |
| 10 | Actually , Cole was n't proposing donations to aid agencies as the ‘ solution ’ to mass starvation any more than Stuart Weir and I were doing so a few years ago . |
| 11 | Only a hundred years ago , costmary could be found in almost any cottage garden , in fact in most gardens throughout Britain . |
| 12 | So relaxed now ; yet only a short while ago he had been in the depths of despair . |
| 13 | Tennyson ; now there , I thought , was one of the really honourable exceptions to the rule , never failing , never fading even in old age , while I , at twenty-seven , could not even finish a lyric that had seemed , only a short while ago , to be moving inevitably towards the final tonic chord . |
| 14 | The growing interest of hardware manufacturers in real-time functionality was demonstrated only a short while ago with the Overture Esprit project , which has dedicated itself to developing a real-time operating system for both the production industry and telecommunications services . |
| 15 | I heard him only a short while ago coming out of the bathroom . |
| 16 | Then , recalling that only a short while ago he 'd guessed mockingly — and correctly — at a conventional upbringing , she added , ‘ Though you wo n't find it very exciting . ’ |
| 17 | A great deal has happened since the Financial Reporting Council and its three attendant bodies came into being only a short time ago . |
| 18 | Only a short time ago she had been as physically intimate with him as it was possible for a man and woman to be . |
| 19 | He looked round them all as though none of them afforded him any surprise , though two of them did not belong here , and to his certain knowledge had been elsewhere only a short time ago . |
| 20 | Well , that was natural ; only a short time ago , when Rick Lawrence was the quarry , Melissa had felt exactly the same . |
| 21 | only a short time ago |
| 22 | The deadline for the surrender of the Securitate secret police was only a few hours ago . |
| 23 | What was this very special place that only a few hours ago I had cursed myself for entering ? |
| 24 | You 've been glad enough to have a doctor coming to see you every day — you , John , with your head broken … or you , George , sick and shaking with fever only a few hours ago . |
| 25 | Glancing despairingly down at what — only a few hours ago — had been a crisp , smart cotton dress in her favourite shade of sapphire-blue , but which was now crumpled and covered with sticky finger-marks , she gave a heavy sigh . |
| 26 | A car radioed in only a few minutes ago . |
| 27 | Only a few minutes ago I felt a slight twitch in the boy 's calf muscle . |
| 28 | I hardly would — you told me only a few minutes ago . ’ |
| 29 | He poured the wine and Robyn gradually , inch by inch , moment by moment , found herself slowly beginning to relax , to actually feel comfortable in her surroundings — something she would have thought impossible only a few minutes ago . |
| 30 | Your forefathers landed here only a few generations ago . |