Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] a [adj] [noun] ago " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are oh I do n't ken when but they must you ken obviously a long time ago story . |
| 2 | Even the currently flourishing Pinnacle Distribution did a kamikaze act just a few years ago , decimating the indie scene . |
| 3 | But the pressure is on to re-create past glories , to think big like the extraordinary Grand Hotel in East Berlin , built just a few years ago . |
| 4 | He moved over a long time ago from playing an SG Standard and an ES-345 when he found his beloved fixed-bridge ‘ 64 Stratocaster , which is standard apart from an extra treble-boost toggle switch . |
| 5 | ‘ I found out a few weeks ago that the canon there says prayers for John every day . ’ |
| 6 | So it seems to me that what Williamson has shown in one particular case is clear evidence of punctuation , but no reasons at all that I can see for supposing that the mechanism of change was any other which Darwin described over a hundred years ago . |
| 7 | " He should have done so a long time ago . |
| 8 | Mother Bernie had said so a long time ago and all Preston 's life 's experiences since then had born it out . |
| 9 | It is not up to us to forget or forgive the crime that Germany committed only a few decades ago ; the only ones who might have done so died on the battlefield or , worse yet , in the gas chambers . |
| 10 | Gedge recognises the irony of now being part of the property owning class he opposed just a few years ago . |
| 11 | Built just a few years ago it looks battle-scarred by usage and needs a good smartening up . |
| 12 | My son-in-law came home a few weeks ago and confessed he 'd been having an affair with a girl in his office . |
| 13 | ‘ We destroyed him because he betrayed The Law ! ’ said Hasan , in the kind of voice that suggested Hasan the Second , the Twenty-third Imam of the Nizari Ismailis , had only just popped out of the room for a cup of coffee instead of being stabbed nearly a thousand years ago . |
| 14 | Starting from the logic of sustainability , we end up with a very similar size for a new community to the one that Howard was writing about a hundred years ago . |
| 15 | A vast factory for paper-making was built nearby a few decades ago , becoming the town 's main employer , but its future appears to be under threat . |
| 16 | Witnesses said some of the floors of the new building , opened only a few months ago , were sagging . |
| 17 | Witnesses said some of the floors of the new building , opened only a few months ago , were sagging . |
| 18 | And the Rose d'Or , a little hotel opened only a few weeks ago , promises a welcome alternative to the establishments of Apt , Aix and Cavaillon . |
| 19 | The whole school was closed down a few years ago . |
| 20 | ‘ We should have got together a long time ago , when I was n't an old man . ’ |
| 21 | With LASMO producing around 185,000 barrels of oil equivalent every day of the year , our current revenues for the year are certainly lower than those anticipated just a few years ago . |
| 22 | Outcome in early treated subjects with phenylketonuria is not as good as was thought just a few years ago and is much more closely associated with the quality of blood phenylalanine control at all ages than previously recognised . |
| 23 | WP When East Berlin opened up a few months ago , there were mobile porn shops visiting different quarters of the city . |
| 24 | The schedule designer must for every be putting himself or herself into the respondents ' shoes and trying to imagine what it would be like to be asked this question by a stranger who just turned up a few minutes ago out of the blue . |
| 25 | ‘ All this happened about a thousand years ago , ’ she said . |
| 26 | but that was an old woman 's tale really , that 's going back a few years ago |
| 27 | ‘ She only arrived here a few days ago , when her uncle died . |
| 28 | The younger your child is the less able they are to remember what happened even a few days ago , so they need you to keep in touch with them . |
| 29 | A hospital for pensioners that opened almost a hundred years ago is about to close its doors for the last time . |
| 30 | British farmers who sold up a few years ago to buy cheap agricultural land in France are also finding that the grass is no greener on the other side of the Channel , and costs more . |