Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] a [adj] [noun] ago " in BNC.
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| 1 | " He should have done so a long time ago . |
| 2 | Mother Bernie had said so a long time ago and all Preston 's life 's experiences since then had born it out . |
| 3 | Built just a few years ago it looks battle-scarred by usage and needs a good smartening up . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The whole school was closed down a few years ago . |
| 7 | ‘ We should have got together a long time ago , when I was n't an old man . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The growing interest of hardware manufacturers in real-time functionality was demonstrated only a short while ago with the Overture Esprit project , which has dedicated itself to developing a real-time operating system for both the production industry and telecommunications services . |
| 11 | ‘ Am I alone in detecting a falling away of accuracy — a sloppiness in dealing with facts and quotations which editors would not have tolerated even a few years ago ? ’ |
| 12 | Finally , our most recent results have shown that ( 1 ) the differential perspective cues described here also affect the perceived absolute distance to the surface ( such that a surface containing perspective cues appropriate for near viewing is perceived to be closer to the observer ) , and ( 2 ) the shape of the apparent fronto-parallel surface systematically varies with the differential vertical perspective cues generated by surfaces at different absolute distances from the observer , as Helmholtz informally demonstrated over a hundred years ago . |
| 13 | The new MOT exhaust emissions test , which was introduced only a few months ago , will also play a significant part in cleaning up the air . |
| 14 | A good example of this is the Lambeth Lesbian and Gay Group which was set up a few years ago and whose meetings I attended three or four times . |
| 15 | The special Christmas shopping service , which will be hauled by British Rail diesel power direct from Butterley Station via Nottingham , Beeston and Loughborough to London , was announced only a few weeks ago and is already nearly full . |
| 16 | ‘ If he 'd gone away a long time ago , it would have been better , ’ said Mrs Clancy wryly . |
| 17 | Nostalgia buffs are gathering for an auction of items which most would have thrown away a few years ago . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The damp and leaky shacks they inhabit have not changed much since the famous sepia photographs that sometimes decorate contemporary colour magazines were taken nearly a hundred years ago . |
| 20 | C. Most of the pits sunk about a hundred years ago were to mine the coal which was near the surface , within about 20 fathoms ( 40 m ) depth or so . |
| 21 | The death grant has been finished quite a long time ago , but there was the death grant erm because I can remember you know this , people telling me about this . |
| 22 | This was confirmed only a few days ago when yet another visit to the garage became necessary , this time through no fault of the Metro 's . |
| 23 | I 've read somewhere a long while ago , there was some sort of warning and I ca n't remember the details you know . |
| 24 | Christian and Chelsea were allowed home for New Year but Andrew , who has had five heart murmurs , was released just a few days ago . |
| 25 | They would not have been contemplated just a few years ago . |