Example sentences of "[noun pl] ago [prep] [art] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The surgeries at Crook , Peterlee , Consett and Chester-le-Street reopened 16 months ago on a trial basis for half-a-day each week . |
| 2 | FOR US , was a good day out , but planning for the Summer Fayre started about eight months ago for the Summer Fayre committee who held their first meeting last October ! |
| 3 | From the moment in the mid-Eighties when it became known that Baron Thyssen was hunting a new location for his famous collection of paintings housed until only a few months ago at the lakeside Villa Favorita near Lugano , city fathers and heads of state began to vie for the prestige of exhibiting it . |
| 4 | The first time I met them , a few months ago in a London photo studio , they were having confetti dumped over their heads by a girl who plays Gemma in Neighbours . |
| 5 | A few decades ago at the US Department of Agriculture Experimental Station in Beltsville , Maryland , only female clucks were hatched from synthetically fertilised turkey eggs . |
| 6 | The Bank of England is thought to have spent between $2bn and $3bn defending sterling against the heavy selling which developed 10 days ago after the August trade figures were released . |
| 7 | He was told less than two weeks ago of the Home Secretary , Kenneth Clarke 's , refusal to refer the Bridgewater case to the Court of Appeal . |
| 8 | Heather Murray was born 7 weeks ago with a heart condition and has spent most of her young life in hospital . |
| 9 | The £2.2 million striker was cleared two weeks ago by a Football Association appeal panel of feigning injury in a clash with Coventry defender Andy Pearce . |
| 10 | This will bring an early return to Cleveland Park for Darlington-based Paul Bentley who was signed just a few weeks ago by the Midlands club from Boro . |
| 11 | In the absence of the proverbial golf course , the lack of networks through which to find suitably experienced women for senior board appointments could be construed as the final obstacle — were it not , it was pointed out , for the rapid proliferation of alternatives in the form of Network , set up all of 12 years ago as a meeting point for women managers , the Scottish Women 's Enterprise Group and Businesswomen 's Clubs . |
| 12 | He was my mother 's brother , and he and my father quarrelled years ago about a business deal . |
| 13 | E actually yours made me think of a story that I was told many years ago on a coach trip over Dartmoor |
| 14 | Anthony John Allen , aged 23 , of Huyton , Liverpool , was cleared by the appeal judges , along with William Willis , aged 23 , who had been given an 11-year sentence for his alleged part in the attack three years ago on a Southampton publican , his wife , and a barmaid . |
| 15 | Javier , from the Systems department , took his picture , titled ‘ Our Shadow ’ , some four years ago on a field trip to Sochagota lake in the province of Boyac . |
| 16 | Their new appointments will reunite Mark Baker and Bruce Lack , who first met several years ago on a training ship . |
| 17 | The photograph had been taken some years ago at a GLC panto . |
| 18 | Helen Hayes and Vincent Price in Victoria Regina which was a Broadway triumph in 1935 Helen Hayes two years ago at a Washington gala |
| 19 | There was a ring of sadness in his voice which she found puzzling until she remembered something from the past — Eddie 's voice repeating what he 'd told her all those years ago at the Oulton Park circuit . |
| 20 | Two years ago at an exhibition centre gig the military two-step intro to their Top 20 hit She Comes in the Fall was played by Lancashire 's version of the Dagenham Girl Pipers . |
| 21 | The Z-Score techniques originated in the US more than 20 years ago with a US professor , Ed Altman , at New York University , and has been continuously refined since then . |
| 22 | The hutted wards , built more than 40 years ago with a life expectancy of 10 years are to be demolished . |
| 23 | Manny Silverman , head of the consortium that rescued the firm from receivers five years ago with a £6m deal , said yesterday : ‘ It has been a hell of a day . |
| 24 | He has also worked for a period , several years ago with the dye house production control at Templetons . |
| 25 | Died two years ago of a heart attack . ’ |
| 26 | Both men are serving life sentences for the murder , more than three years ago of a drug dealer , Hensley Wiltshire . |
| 27 | McGrath was fined £8,500 by the Football Association three years ago for a newspaper article attack on Ferguson , who responded with his own condemnation of the defender in his autobiography earlier this year . |
| 28 | It is interesting to compare these figures with the results of a survey of interim reporting carried out 10 years ago for the Institute publication The role of interim accounts and preliminary profit announcements in financial reporting in the UK ( 1982 ) . |
| 29 | One of the most frightening times in my life occurred about three years ago during the October break . |
| 30 | MY WORST and only health problem developed after I was mugged five years ago outside the Embassy Club in Manchester , which I 've run for 32 years . |