Example sentences of "[noun] ago [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It so happened that the local station was still waiting on the True Brit for recognition of a tidbit passed on to that paper six months ago about a rural dean and a lady elephant-tamer . |
| 2 | But a report from the London Society of Chartered Accountants says that firms among the 250 quizzed are even less optimistic than they were four months ago about the general business outlook . |
| 3 | I bought an Amstrad 5086 just 2 months ago as a total novice , not even familiar with a keyboard on the advice of the staff of my local Dixon 's store . |
| 4 | Four or five months ago on a gentle Autumn evening I climbed some steep stairs in a converted house in Holland Park to call upon my then closest friend and ally , the Robert whom my agent mentioned so cunningly and cruelly in his self-exposing telephone conversation this morning . |
| 5 | One of them three months ago for a violent attack . |
| 6 | The duo came to Darlington about 18 months ago for a one-night show , but have not played panto in the North-East before . |
| 7 | The decision 18 months ago of the Spanish government to impose a ban on South African golfers , in the wake of similar action taken during the decade by Sweden , The Netherlands and Belgium , magnified the plight of those South Africans seeking to ply their trade , and earn a living , on the P.G.A . |
| 8 | I THOUGHT Joe Hyam would like to know that we changed our menu four months ago to the fixed-price system . |
| 9 | It was from Jimmy that she heard the worrying news that Vasey 's had recently been bought out some months ago by the giant Massingham Engineering . |
| 10 | WE WERE in Prague and then Bratislava for British Film Week , organised months ago by the British Council , but now thrust inadvertently into the middle of a political , social and cultural revolution . |
| 11 | Yes , we realise this is Guitarist and not Woodglue Sniffers ' Weekly , but things are hotting up ; it seems our remarks a couple of months ago concerning a certain brand of custom-built guitar storage cabinet have not gone unnoticed by a rival chippie down in Eastbourne … |
| 12 | The killings took place six months ago in a busy car park . |
| 13 | He was killed about an hour and a half ago during a German counter attack on our positions . |
| 14 | This continuity has practical as well as expressive value , because it facilitates the organic style of change I mentioned a moment ago as a practical advantage . |
| 15 | It was first announced 12 days ago by the Scottish Secretary , Ian Lang , as part of the Government 's ‘ taking stock ’ exercise . |
| 16 | Even now a fast ion may be shooting through you that escaped a few days ago from the Jovian magnetosphere . |
| 17 | The incident follows the death less than two weeks ago of a marine warrant officer taking part in the same exercise . |
| 18 | Japan 's annual Unix Fair was held a couple of weeks ago at a new venue in Yokohama , attracting 89 exhibitors and 37,000 visitors . |
| 19 | Only six weeks ago at the Tory Party conference he promised categorically that his spending total would not be ‘ breached ’ . |
| 20 | Southampton , who sent West Ham to the bottom of the division six weeks ago with a similar scoreline at The Dell , have hauled themselves close to safety with a run of one defeat in 13 matches . |
| 21 | He began his planning in January but found practice curtailed two weeks ago by a heavy snowfall . |
| 22 | Perhaps he is referring to some figures that were leaked a couple of weeks ago from the Industrial Development Board for Northern Ireland — a reference to 44 inward investment jobs . |
| 23 | Chepstow is renowned for its soft ground and even two weeks ago after a prolonged drought the going was on the soft side . |
| 24 | Pringle , 24 , of Thirlmere Road , Darlington , was shot by a police marksman three weeks ago after a 47-hour siege in which his 21-year-old ex-girlfriend Leanne Rees was taken hostage . |
| 25 | It 's a sad grey prefab , put up some 20 years ago as a temporary measure and still servicing the needs of this economically depressed small town some 62km north of Paris . |
| 26 | As a young man I listened to many yarns spun by such men as Billican Geary , Treacle Mills , and little Sparrow Martin , who had an insatiable appetite for apple pudding and who years ago as a young man dived off Rochester Bridge for a bet . |
| 27 | It was set up five years ago as a new shop to combine the Art Bookshop and the Poster Gallery , which prior to that had been part of the Paperback Bookshop . |
| 28 | It has been argued that the mechanism of synaptic reinforcement at work here follows a rule that the psychologist Donald Hebb proposed forty years ago as the neuronal basis of memory : when an input pattern is successful in making a neuron fire , then the synapses that took part in making it fire are strengthened . |
| 29 | The award was presented to the club by Durham CIU vice- president Bill Laverick five years ago as an annual prize and he handed over the trophy at a special ceremony at the club . |
| 30 | Mr Baig , a Lahore business man , was the subject of a BBC documentary four years ago about a Japanese heroin smuggler who was caught in Amsterdam and sentenced to 10 years ' jail . |