Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] a [det] [noun pl] ago " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of man 's great intellectual adventures — the exploration and understanding of his own nervous system — is progressing at a rate undreamed of only a few decades ago . |
| 2 | The requirements of the sectors which are expanding today bear little resemblance to the requirements of the industries of the last century , or indeed to the industry of only a few decades ago . |
| 3 | ‘ Seems like just a few minutes ago ’ |
| 4 | So there are some new facets to catering in the RAF today compared with even a few years ago . |
| 5 | The fords at first included were later replaced by some 40 bridges , many of which still stand , and many miles of the original road were in use until only a few years ago . |
| 6 | THE young man filmed in the early hours of yesterday delightedly taking a pick-axe to the top of the Berlin Wall was a potent symbol of the destruction of 28 years of affront to freedom and of the potential dismantling of the system presided over until only a few weeks ago by its architect , Mr Erich Honecker . |
| 7 | That seems a far cry from just a few years ago when the only diesels were lorries , buses and the occasional taxi . |
| 8 | And she had n't honestly thought he had — until just a few hours ago on the beach when he 'd said that this was goodbye . |
| 9 | Cos I asked in here a few weeks ago and they said . |
| 10 | He was called in here a few days ago , about an accident . ’ |
| 11 | Christians of different denominations feel much closer together now — at the parish level — than they used to even a few years ago . |