Example sentences of "[adv] than a [noun] ago " in BNC.
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| 1 | A task force sent out by the House of Representatives ' banking committee estimates that sorting out America 's savings and loan mess could cost as much as $162 billion more than the $50 billion authorised by Congress less than a year ago . |
| 2 | One such building in the suburb of Karlshorst was a Stasi training centre less than a year ago , and has now been handed over to local artists , who have turned it into a Kunst Haus ( art house ) and bar . |
| 3 | It was , after all , less than a year ago that he sold a substantial quantity of Amstrad shares . |
| 4 | The 20-year-old , a reserve team striker less than a year ago , is now a key man in Kevin Keegan 's all-conquering outfit . |
| 5 | American Airlines , which began the daily flights to Chicago less than a year ago , and an airport spokesman accused the Government of being partly to blame for the decision . |
| 6 | It was less than a year ago , though it seemed far longer , that they had kept each other company at Ockham House during the long bleak hours it had taken Mary Ladram to die . |
| 7 | Although he had had a smoker 's cough for many years , it was less than a year ago that he was diagnosed as having incurable lung cancer . |
| 8 | But there is a more immediate aim for striker Ian Wright who is fighting a fitness battle to return in the live Sky TV game against the club which sold him to Highbury less than a year ago and show he is still the man England need . |
| 9 | Her death comes just one month after she split from her second husband by whom she had a daughter less than a year ago . |
| 10 | Although Korda was now more of a financier than an active producer , it was his suggestion that led Graham Greene to visit Austria to see if he could find the background in the four-power occupation of Vienna which would inspire him to extend his one-line story : ‘ I had paid my last farewell to Harry less than a week ago , when his coffin was lowered in the frozen February ground , so that it was with incredulity that I saw him pass by , without a sign of recognition , among the host of strangers in the Strand . ’ |
| 11 | The victory condemned Howard Wilkinson 's team to their seventh consecutive match without a win — and another headache to follow their European Cup collapse less than a week ago . |
| 12 | " When you crept into my room less than a week ago , you were n't so shy about touching me . |
| 13 | But … at school less than a month ago she had lost her temper with her maths teacher . |
| 14 | The line-up is now down to a five-piece , guitarist Angelo Bruschini having quit the group less than a month ago . |
| 15 | Had it really been less than a month ago ? |
| 16 | ONE OF the world 's major orchid shows is to open in Glasgow in May , in spite of the event 's having been dubbed a fiasco less than a month ago . |
| 17 | The third machine on sale in Britain is the Lynx , made by Atari , who started the whole video games phenomenon more than a decade ago . |
| 18 | Meanwhile , the proposal — which owes much to the structure of Aegon ( itself the product of a proprietary company , ENNEA , merging with a mutual one , AGO , more than a decade ago ) — is being closely studied by the many other mutual UK life assurers who find themselves short of free capital . |
| 19 | During the last Energy Question Time , more than a fortnight ago , he promised to write to me but he has failed to do so . |
| 20 | Mr Gordon Brown , shadow trade secretary , asked : ‘ Why have we had to rely on the Ombudsman to confirm the mismanagement , the maladministration and incompetence that was widely known more than a year ago ? ’ |
| 21 | Its mail-order business , coyly put on the shelf for sale more than a year ago , is still sitting there gathering dust . |
| 22 | A complaint from London Electricity following the loss of the London Underground supply contract to National Power more than a year ago triggered the issue . |
| 23 | To make matters worse , the value of homes has dropped dramatically since they were fixed for the council tax more than a year ago . |
| 24 | Indeed , he has never really fitted in since Kendall brought him down from Scotland more than a year ago . |
| 25 | The bodies given the task of recovering some of the lost money , most notably the Resolution Trust Corporation and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation , made it clear more than a year ago that the thrifts ' auditors and advisers would be first in the firing line leading many accountants to accuse the government of targeting them as ‘ deep pockets ’ . |
| 26 | Stylish midfielder Davis , 31 , was fined and dumped from Graham 's first-team plans more than a year ago when he wrote an article in a national newspaper criticising the manager 's tactics after Arsenal 's exit from the European Cup by Benfica . |
| 27 | FOR the first time since peace was signed in El Salvador more than a year ago , blood has been spilled on the streets of San Salvador , the capital city . |
| 28 | Science Applications International Corp has finally introduced the ruggedised version of RDI Computer Corp 's BriteLite portable Sparc workstation , which was planned more than a year ago ( UX 339 ) . |
| 29 | Its top-end quad-processor was launched more than a year ago and there have been no major additions to the range since then . |
| 30 | She sold the place more than a year ago . |