Example sentences of "more than a [noun sg] ago " in BNC.
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| 1 | Little more than a century ago most people , even in industrialized countries , rarely travelled more than a few miles from their birthplace . |
| 2 | Meanwhile , as ministers ' eyes glaze over at the thousand ‘ what ifs ’ thrown up by war , they would do well to remember Lord Salisbury 's deflatingly modest dictum from more than a century ago : ‘ The first object of a treaty of peace should be to make a future war improbable . ’ |
| 3 | Little more than a century ago , when the river ran free , the Comanche would have taken our scalps for being here . |
| 4 | More than a century ago J. S. Mill argued for universal education on moral grounds , holding that it would manifestly increase the general balance of pleasure over pain , happiness over unhappiness . |
| 5 | Little more than a century ago , most of the river bank where huge shipyards now stand was fertile agricultural land . |
| 6 | The role of platelets in the process ( which has resulted from the work of several groups : ( Chandler & Hand , 1961 ; Murphy et al , 1962 ; French , 1966 ; Ross et al , 1974 ) as put forward by Ross and Glomset ( 1976 ) is really a bringing together of the Virchow and Rokitansky hypotheses of more than a century ago in that platelets may themselves contribute to vessel injury , thrombosis and atherogenesis ( Mustard et al , 1983 ) . |
| 7 | It 's little more than a century ago that women were still being led to market to be sold to the highest bidder — in England . |
| 8 | The superior quality of the German workman was being remarked on more than a century ago . |
| 9 | With that number about little more than a century ago , it might be thought an easy matter to run one to earth . |
| 10 | More than a century ago the nightwatchman at North Road Station had a ghastly experience . |
| 11 | More than a century ago tunnels and galleries were cut into the cliffs here by the engineers who constructed the Axenstrasse road which enabled vehicular traffic to pass along the lakeside towards the Gotthard and obviate the need for lake transhipments . |
| 12 | Stretch , making the first defence of a title he won more than a year ago when he out-pointed Gary Cooper , caught Wormald with a perfectly timed right hook to the chin . |
| 13 | It was his desire to play the Senior Tour and his love of golf which has given the Notts professional the inspiration to overcome his terrible injuries and pick up where he left off a little more than a year ago . |
| 14 | Joan was recalling the day , not much more than a year ago , when she had found herself alone in a locked room with the innkeeper . |
| 15 | The couple 's romance started more than a year ago when Stuart wed Lisa 's mother . |
| 16 | Little more than a year ago you could n't give away shares in the small computer company sector — so friendless were they that Star Computer Group Plc found it necessary to get into bed with a purveyor of pizzas to improve its visibility and rating : after Tadpole Technology Plc and now Division Group Plc — which soared to 107 pence on its first day of trading from the 40 pence placing price before settling at 96 pence — the rest of the sector looks set for a re-rating as investors seek to discern hidden charms that others have overlooked . |
| 17 | Since opening the gates to the Magic Kingdom a little more than a year ago , Euro Disney has been beset by a series of much-publicised problems : poor attendance , labour disputes , French snobbery and pan-European discontent over high prices and long queues . |
| 18 | The Open Graphics Initiative launched by Sun Microsystems Inc more than a year ago to provide an interoperable interface between graphics applications and hardware in the Sparc-compatible market , has published its first complete set of foundation libraries for developers . |
| 19 | More than a year ago , the Barnes board had failed in a bid for permission to sell up to fifteen works from the legendary collection of early modern materpieces in order to fund building repairs . |
| 20 | While at the Royal Academy of Music she had lived there but that , though not much more than a year ago , now seemed infinitely distant . |
| 21 | When the Minister made it clear a little more than a year ago that he was changing his attitude towards the Government of Syria , he said that he was able to do so because there was no known connection with terrorist organisations , such as that involving the appalling man , Jibril . |
| 22 | That is an inadequate answer , given that more than a year ago there was a severe weather crisis throughout the country , especially in the east midlands district where 2 million people were without supplies , some of them for a considerable period . |
| 23 | More than a year ago , Matthey Beyrand set up a programme which ensures total control of its lead times . |
| 24 | Stephen Davison disappeared more than a year ago , and the court was told that part of his body was later found in a lake . |
| 25 | The complex was rebuilt after a firebomb attack more than a year ago , and its owners certainly have made the most of the opportunity . |
| 26 | Her jailed former boyfriend , Mohammed Niazy , has recanted a letter he wrote more than a year ago , exonerating the former Middlesbrough pub landlady of all guilt . |
| 27 | More than a decade ago , De Lorean and his cover-girl wife Cristina were the toasts of London . |
| 28 | More than a decade ago you could have chosen the best nylon line from those manufactured as easily as sifting maggots from casters , there were so few good ones and so many bad ones . |
| 29 | These discoveries are relatively recent for a particular reason : medical scientists only started seriously investigating the benefits of high-fibre little more than a decade ago . |
| 30 | Billie Jean King , who little more than a decade ago was still thrilling Wimbledon crowds , is 48 and Sixties soccer idol George Best is three months older than Clinton . |