Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [art] [noun sg] ago " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each season the true 500 elite ( you can count them on your hands with fingers to spare ) develop their skills further as improved equipment allows achievements which a year ago , or even a month ago , would have been impossible . |
| 2 | Since becoming assistant to Monsieur Bonard , he has progressed rapidly in the business and only a week ago he told us of his hopes of being made a partner . |
| 3 | And only a month ago he won two successes without a blow struck . |
| 4 | And almost a decade ago its government asked scientists , including hydrologist Dr Ted Hollis from University College London , to predict the effects of damming the rivers upon the level and salinity of the lake , and hence upon the weeds and birds ; and to suggest ways of minimizing the impact of damming . |
| 5 | Yeah it 's just a small volume , you 've just got one channel for , yeah currently I 'm in pretty good shape but only a year ago I had a major bypass operation . |
| 6 | Harry said you 'd told him you loved him , but only a fortnight ago you sat here telling me you might well go to Jamaica with Dunbar . ’ |
| 7 | But only a week ago they were escaping a massacre by Serbs in their village … and the memories burn deep . |
| 8 | But only a week ago she clashed with Mr Smith after he snubbed her request to wind up the Commons debate on the pit closures . |
| 9 | Women make their own minds up about what they want to do , I find , so I left it ; but about a year ago she invited me to a party and indicated that whoever it had been was no longer around . |
| 10 | But about a year ago she had begun to remember incidents which she must hitherto have blocked from her mind . |
| 11 | QUITE HOW it happened I 'm still not sure , but about a year ago I was shamelessly conned into driving Christie Hennessy to Cork in a rented car . |
| 12 | He used to work for an outfit in the City called Even Rudergrams , but about a year ago the market fell right out of the bottom of the stripping kissogram girl ( or boy ) business , and the company packed up and moved into something else . |