Example sentences of "[adv] so [adv] ago that " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ England is an island without sea , or else an island that used to be sea-bound , only so long ago that the sea 's now evaporated . ’ |
| 2 | But it was not so long ago that many leading Tories faulted it for being mismanaged , diffused , uncertain , failing to set the agenda ; in a word , bad . |
| 3 | They were great fiddlers of long ago it 's not so long ago that I mind there was five fiddlers in our kitchen in Dalvaine , just each coming with a just to have a night at the fiddle . |
| 4 | ‘ Did n't I tell you not so long ago that there was only one area of my life I could countenance sharing with you — and that purely out of necessity ? ’ |
| 5 | Well I , he lived at Stowmarket for years but then I heard not so long ago that they had moved to Ipswich but where I do n't know but they must be , whether he 's than I have now I do n't know either . |
| 6 | Well I heard not so long ago that they were going to either pull it down or |
| 7 | It 's not so long ago that Kilmarnock were talking about wanting to go up as champions and look at them now . |
| 8 | It is n't so long ago that the advocates of population control were being attacked not from the right but from the left . |