Example sentences of "[vb past] more than a [noun sg] ago " in BNC.
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| 1 | The couple 's romance started more than a year ago when Stuart wed Lisa 's mother . |
| 2 | It all started more than a decade ago from this barn on an isolated farm in South Shropshire . |
| 3 | Stephen Davison disappeared more than a year ago , and the court was told that part of his body was later found in a lake . |
| 4 | Stretch , making the first defence of a title he won more than a year ago when he out-pointed Gary Cooper , caught Wormald with a perfectly timed right hook to the chin . |
| 5 | Her jailed former boyfriend , Mohammed Niazy , has recanted a letter he wrote more than a year ago , exonerating the former Middlesbrough pub landlady of all guilt . |
| 6 | But advocates of renewable energy point out that the new budget still leaves the field far behind where it stood more than a decade ago , when President Jimmy Carter spent as much as $800 million a year on renewable research . |