Example sentences of "[det] [adj] [noun] ago [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the collapse of the Dwarf empire almost three and a half thousand years ago the Dwarf stronghold of Karak Eight Peaks lay in ruins . |
| 2 | Some sixty years ago a copy of Lady Dilke 's French Illustrated Books , extended to fifty-eight volumes , with nearly 10,000 additional illustrations , was offered for sale at £2,000 . |
| 3 | Some thirty years ago an operation was introduced to control the spread of epilepsy from an affected cerebral hemisphere to the other , unaffected one . |
| 4 | While visiting Yugoslavia in those more happy days of some two years ago a member of the Swanage Railway noted the existence of a similar machine and reckoned that conversion would not be too difficult . |
| 5 | Accommodation was plentiful at Cecilia Darne 's house where all those years ago a bomb had blown the windows out . |
| 6 | Until eighteen months ago Wiltshire was the most undermanned force in this country , and that 's not our figures , that was the Home Office formula which produced that , and because of that eighteen months ago the Home Secretary actually granted this force an extra sixty- seven policemen and he gave none to anybody else . |