Example sentences of "[noun pl] ago [art] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just a few months ago the Queen Mother wore a Hartnell creation to the wedding of Lady Helen Windsor . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I shop there a lot as it 's so handy for my offices , and I seem to recall that about six months ago the floristry section was moved from an upper floor where no one ever saw it right on to the Oxford Street frontage . ’ |
| 4 | Mayor , three months ago the E I D sub-committee Labour members rejected the Employment Action Scheme . |
| 5 | Just 16 days ago a one-ton van bomb dumped at East London 's massive office development Canary Wharf also failed to explode although experts have been unable to find any fault . |
| 6 | Ten days ago a police bullet had hit the explosive which Terry Place had hidden in a carrier bag in the tunnel . |
| 7 | Ten days ago the AMF(L) Supply Company RAOC arrived in northern Turkey to support the multinational Allied Command Europe Mobile Force ( Land ) , ( AMF(L) ) , as part of the Logistic Support Battalion . |
| 8 | Ten days ago the Home Office told which operates the sirens to dismantle the equipment , an instruction that angered Lincolnshire County Council . |
| 9 | Simon had neither family nor friends and three days ago the parish council had begged Athelstan and Benedicta to visit the unfortunate . |
| 10 | A few weeks ago the boundary hedge was fired . |
| 11 | A few weeks ago the Colchester site of the institute raised £2,000 for the Terence Higgins Trust , which helps AIDS victims . |
| 12 | A few weeks ago the Wrekin Council in Shropshire banned the use of metal detectors from its 5,000 hectares of land . |
| 13 | Only a few weeks ago the Swanage Railway was in some difficulty providing steam locomotives with sufficient power . |
| 14 | Two weeks ago the World Bank launched a $1.5bn global bond issue which was partly sold in the Euromarket and partly in the US domestic market . |
| 15 | Well a few weeks ago the city fathers installed dose nasty little tings at a cost , believe it or not , sir , of some turty tree tousand pounds , and the day atterwards dey declared the whole area a no waiting zone . ’ |
| 16 | A few years ago a minute fossil only about 2 mm long was recovered from limestones of Ordovician age , and christened Janospira . |
| 17 | Six years ago a road accident left him severely injured . |
| 18 | Forty years ago a Sunderland shirt-maker married a shipyard pattern-maker . |
| 19 | Five years ago a parent company acquired a recruitment agency subsidiary . |
| 20 | Ten years ago a New Zealand company was given a licence to dig it out . |
| 21 | Two thousand years ago a sex manual written in China laid down a few guidelines for gauging a woman 's sexual characteristics from a careful study of her face . |
| 22 | Whereas a few years ago a mainframe computer would have been essential to perform corpus processing , a desktop computer now suffices . |
| 23 | Three years ago a Sao Paulo solicitor was applauded as he kicked a young would-be pickpocket to death . |
| 24 | Four thousand years ago a funeral pyre like this one was built for a woman who was either heavily pregnant or recently delivered of a child . |
| 25 | Four thousand years ago a funeral pyre like this one was built for a woman who was either heavily pregnant or who who had recently had of a child . |
| 26 | However , there is a great deal of public confusion about the nature of black holes : only a few years ago a television serial depicted astronauts landing on the surface-of one ! |
| 27 | Two years ago the Art History Department of the University of Hamburg organised an international symposium on Aby Warburg . |
| 28 | Two years ago the Sergeant Major returned fire on I R A gunmen who ambushed him . |
| 29 | One hundred thousand years ago the North Sea lapped against chalk cliffs in this area . |
| 30 | ABOUT 15 YEARS ago the computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum announced that he had discovered a new personality type — the compulsive programmer . |