Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [art] [noun] ago " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each season the true 500 elite ( you can count them on your hands with fingers to spare ) develop their skills further as improved equipment allows achievements which a year ago , or even a month ago , would have been impossible . |
| 2 | When I reminded them that only an hour ago they were saying they did n't fancy any more , they looked genuinely irritated . |
| 3 | Who would ever guess from the benign expression on his face that just a moment ago he had been exploding with anger ? |
| 4 | Ronni was suddenly grateful that just a moment ago she 'd already had this conversation . |
| 5 | And that exactly a century ago , the fifth Earl sold his splendid library to Mrs John Rylands , who gave it to Manchester ( though the university has since broken the spirit of the benefaction by selling part of it ) . |
| 6 | But Lisa had less time for her , and was meeting new people , refining a way of living that even a year ago she would have claimed to despise . |
| 7 | Some of the causes are still unknown , although with advanced medical knowledge much more is known about mental handicap today than even a decade ago . |
| 8 | The strongest impetus , he said , comes from museums ' reassessment of their role in society which the profession sees as far broader than even a decade ago . |
| 9 | Since becoming assistant to Monsieur Bonard , he has progressed rapidly in the business and only a week ago he told us of his hopes of being made a partner . |
| 10 | And only a month ago he won two successes without a blow struck . |
| 11 | And almost a decade ago its government asked scientists , including hydrologist Dr Ted Hollis from University College London , to predict the effects of damming the rivers upon the level and salinity of the lake , and hence upon the weeds and birds ; and to suggest ways of minimizing the impact of damming . |
| 12 | Yeah it 's just a small volume , you 've just got one channel for , yeah currently I 'm in pretty good shape but only a year ago I had a major bypass operation . |
| 13 | Harry said you 'd told him you loved him , but only a fortnight ago you sat here telling me you might well go to Jamaica with Dunbar . ’ |
| 14 | But only a week ago they were escaping a massacre by Serbs in their village … and the memories burn deep . |
| 15 | But only a week ago she clashed with Mr Smith after he snubbed her request to wind up the Commons debate on the pit closures . |
| 16 | Women make their own minds up about what they want to do , I find , so I left it ; but about a year ago she invited me to a party and indicated that whoever it had been was no longer around . |
| 17 | But about a year ago she had begun to remember incidents which she must hitherto have blocked from her mind . |
| 18 | QUITE HOW it happened I 'm still not sure , but about a year ago I was shamelessly conned into driving Christie Hennessy to Cork in a rented car . |
| 19 | He used to work for an outfit in the City called Even Rudergrams , but about a year ago the market fell right out of the bottom of the stripping kissogram girl ( or boy ) business , and the company packed up and moved into something else . |
| 20 | Erm , let's cover one or two things , because about a year ago , in two articles in the local use , sorry who was it ? allowed to sell the accumulated fund from council house sales , on building new houses , and two weeks later the deputy leader of the council , argued that he needed that money invested because the council could n't exist without the interest on it . |