Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [adv] ago [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hawkhill Recreation Ground which was used for recreational purposes as long ago as 17th century ; |
| 2 | Hungary started to introduce market-oriented reforms as long ago as 1968 and , after a period of retreat in the 1970s , renewed this reform process in the 1980s . |
| 3 | The times they are a-changing , however , and the Church is doing no more than facing up to the inevitable , as did the Anglicans as long ago as 1968 . |
| 4 | Food irradiation was approved in the US for some uses as long ago as 1963 . |
| 5 | The Scottish Office commissioned John Grimshaw 's report on long-distance cycle routes as long ago as 1983 , but has failed to implement the proposals in it . |
| 6 | Eurasia removed much of the Neotropical megafauna of the Pleistocene , but if humans were there in significant numbers as long ago as recent evidence suggests , then it is difficult to explain away the collapse of that fauna . |
| 7 | And we know from micro-fossils that there were already several distinct forms of bacteria-like organisms as long ago as 3000 million years . |
| 8 | Cork-stoppers had been used by the Romans as long ago as 500 BC , but were ‘ lost ’ to the French when the Romans left Gaul some twelve hundred years before Dom Pérignon 's day , though they were available elsewhere in Europe . |