Example sentences of "it was two [noun] ago " in BNC.
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| 1 | The influence of the Catholic church is less suffocating today than it was two generations ago , but it is still striking to outsiders . |
| 2 | I have a print of Fernhill as it was two centuries ago . |
| 3 | It was two years ago in Lanzarote that Hall received another knee injury when he looked certain to claim the flanker place — eventually taken by Teague — for England 's 1991 Grand Slam side . |
| 4 | ‘ It was two years ago , and is now , to produce non-inflationary growth in this country and to put people back into profit , back into jobs and back into prosperity in this country . |
| 5 | ‘ Honestly , I 'm as fit now as I was during the World Cup and my weight is down to what it was two years ago . |
| 6 | The price of a large coffee-table book is in a number of cases twenty times higher than it was two years ago . |
| 7 | So I 'm just wondering whether this is a different variety and because it was two years ago , I three years ago now I think . |
| 8 | ‘ While I might have had difficulty believing you at that particular moment two years ago , it was two years ago . |
| 9 | erm sort of , at fir , you know , at first I thought sometimes you know oh , you know what 's the matter with you like but , she admits herself , her I Q , you know how they judge your intelligence has gone right down , she has to have tests every now and again , er she ca n't concentrate on things , or , you know some things she just ca n't do any more , so she 's at , supposed to be getting all this compensation and it 's been going on now , it was two years ago , three years ago that we met them and she 's only just had the first part of her money , she 's had five thousand pounds , that 's all she can get for the time being all the rest is , cos all solicitors and everything and doctors having to come and check things , so she knows , she knows she 'll get money eventually , but er , it 's just when , but is n't it an awful thing ? |
| 10 | ‘ The win over England was special but it was two weeks ago . |
| 11 | it was on a Friday , it was her day off , she got called in at about three o'clock and they told her then , it was two weeks ago now |