Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] a [noun] ago " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , one of the gardeners was dismissed only a fortnight ago because it was thought he was taking them . |
| 2 | The complementary experiment was carried out a decade ago in the laboratory of the influential German school working on the origin of life under Manfred Eigen . |
| 3 | It is , it is , it 's re-opened about a week ago , having been shut for re-doing . |
| 4 | If the district registry had appreciated the urgency and the short period of the order without doubt they would have sought directions and the result would certainly have been that the appeal would have been set down at some other convenient centre or , as happened , in London at or before the beginning of this term and would have been heard within a few days , that is , the appeal would have been heard approximately a month ago . |
| 5 | ‘ The will was made about a year ago and this is what it amounts to : ‘ The shop premises and stock and all assets pertaining to the business together with the contents of my studio excepting only my tube of Winsor blue to my niece and dear friend Cathy Carne ’ . ’ |
| 6 | We had last met over a year ago , when I went over to Paris to see an exhibition of the most wonderful Boucheron jewellery going back over a hundred years . |
| 7 | Their father , Patrick Hamilton , had died dramatically a year ago , blown up by an IRA car-bomb a few yards from what was then their home in Dublin . |
| 8 | While I 'm on the subject , whatever happened to the Randy Hansen interview which was promised quite a while ago but never appeared ? |
| 9 | The wife of one prominent member of the British community in Seoul said : ‘ We would have hoped she 'd have picked something she had n't worn just a week ago . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ She has only been flown back a month ago from the near east . |
| 11 | Information Consulting , while independent , was formed about a year ago by five former Arthur Andersen partners with financial backing from Saatchi and Saatchi , the advertising and consultancy group . |
| 12 | The inquiry was set up a year ago by the Howard League for Penal Reform following a spate of suicides at Feltham since August 1991 . |
| 13 | The drinking water inspectorate was set up a year ago . |
| 14 | The review panel was set up a year ago under the chairmanship of Professor Ron Edwards of Cardiff University . |
| 15 | The air ambulance was set up a year ago as an experiment . |
| 16 | Well I erm , I was , I was burgled about a year ago and I 'm am ex er , I 'm a retired criminal lawyer , and , but I , I felt that if I lived in the States and trained in the States and I carried a gun then and I felt very vulnerable in not having a gun because he , I was in my own home and he fist me with a knife |
| 17 | It had been announced only a month ago that she was expecting her first child and would probably be leaving after the spring term . |
| 18 | I had hardly finished rummaging through my snapshots of cars of the '50s ( pictured here a fortnight ago ) when I was transported back another 10 years to the 1940s . |
| 19 | The 42-year-old Smith certainly knows all about pressure after being sacked almost a year ago by Sunderland following a 3-0 defeat at Oxford . |
| 20 | ‘ At least you left Fernando on good terms , ’ he went on as he pulled up in front of the stone steps of the mansion that Ruth had fled down a century ago . |
| 21 | Prison officers say there are plans to re-open a Victorian jail which was mothballed nearly a year ago . |
| 22 | Some of you may have listened very attentively to the , to a programme that put o , was put out a week ago I think , with Betty er , in Welsh and er some of you therefore , will know something my background . |
| 23 | Also , where is his autobiography , supposedly finished over a year ago ? |
| 24 | The man escaped from Coney Hill mental hospital in Gloucester , where he 'd been sent exactly a year ago after being convicted of the assault of a three year old girl in the city . |
| 25 | The argument was fuelled exactly a year ago when the League Against Cruel Sports made public a video showing Prince Charles 's favourite hunt , The Quorn , breaking the sport 's strict code of conduct by digging out a fox and throwing it to the hounds . |
| 26 | Although this material was devised nearly a decade ago , it remains a very useful guideline to activities involving visual perception that are tailored to meet the needs of individual children with defective vision . |
| 27 | The extra work is needed to cope with demand for its new Rover 800 saloon , which although launched just a year ago is hammering opposition in the executive market . |
| 28 | The collection was acquired about a year ago from the heirs of Pierre Matisse , who acted as Miró 's dealer in New York for many years , and comprises 530 works , mostly drawings and collages , but also several canvases . |