Example sentences of "was [verb] [adj] [noun] ago " in BNC.
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| 1 | The star lot , Holbein 's Lady with a Squirrel , was withdrawn two weeks ago by Lord Cholmondeley , when he sold it to the National Gallery for £10 million . |
| 2 | This was followed by White Shops , next to the Duchess of Kent 's Military Hospital , where there were also bus stops and two schools but no crossing patrol , which was withdrawn several years ago . |
| 3 | The division was formed two years ago from a number of subsidiaries . |
| 4 | When the Quoc Dan Dang was formed two years ago we joined secretly and agreed to continue spying on Devraux . |
| 5 | The Catering Guild , a Division of the TM Group , Europe 's largest independent refreshment vending company , was formed four years ago with a view to providing a professional catering service combined with a fresh approach to the provision of staff meals . |
| 6 | The Friend Teesside group was formed four years ago to provide a counselling and advice service and last year received 597 calls for help . |
| 7 | The institute was formed six years ago as a result of the amalgamation of the Macaulay Institute of Soil Research and the Hill Farming Research Organisation . |
| 8 | Belfast is the only area who run a first year league which was formed several seasons ago and this year 15 teams have entered with the finals before Easter . |
| 9 | When the Green party was formed 20 years ago , many treated it as a political joke and dismissed its members as a bunch of idealistic hippies . |
| 10 | It has a proven track record , creating 71,000 new job opportunities since it was formed seven years ago . |
| 11 | INVESTORS who piled into North West Water when it was floated three years ago are on the crest of a wave . |
| 12 | Our own interest in dunnocks was aroused several years ago by a chance comment , made over a cup of coffee . |
| 13 | Stanley Kalms , the Dixons chief whose own bid for what was then called Woolworths was repulsed three years ago , said the offer document did not disguise an attempt to acquire his company on the cheap . |
| 14 | His last novel , Forward the Foundation , was completed two months ago . |
| 15 | Major restoration projects include the Cathedral of Our Lady whose exterior is now almost complete ; inside , the first phase of work on the nave and roof was completed some years ago . |
| 16 | Due to be finished at the end of this month , the project will add an extra 326 acute beds to the 240 long-stay and acute beds in the hospital 's first phase which was completed several years ago . |
| 17 | Our marriage was arranged many years ago . |
| 18 | ‘ It was arranged some time ago . ’ |
| 19 | In this case , the meeting was arranged some time ago . |
| 20 | Although the London conference was arranged some time ago it became an opportunity for the princess to deliver her pledge in a speech re-written in the past day or two . |
| 21 | David McNeill , 59 , senior depute education director , will receive a lump sum of at least £74,000 and an annual pension of more than £24,000 in the deal , which was arranged some months ago . |
| 22 | Radiocarbon was developed forty years ago and is still the scientific dating method most commonly used by archaeologists . |
| 23 | The ex-Cambridge boss replaces Les Chapman , who was sacked 11 weeks ago . |
| 24 | MY WORST and only health problem developed after I was mugged five years ago outside the Embassy Club in Manchester , which I 've run for 32 years . |
| 25 | This was a truly remarkable achievement for Chris , who was diagnosed two years ago as having medically untreatable tumours in his lungs . |
| 26 | She was diagnosed five years ago , about the time David Markham went out of her life . ’ |
| 27 | Cryptosporidium was diagnosed three weeks ago , but doctors are convinced it 's now died off and Julie 's current problems are the result of something else . |
| 28 | Hound Tor is a deserted settlement in Manaton parish , high on the east side of Dartmoor , which was excavated some years ago and has been left open so that visitors can see it . |
| 29 | Since betting was legalised 30 years ago , bookmakers have not been allowed to do anything that might ‘ stimulate ’ a punter to bet . |
| 30 | An effect of this sort was reported some years ago by Grastyan ( 1961 ) , who monitored an electrophysiological correlate ( hippocampal slow waves ) of the overt OR during conditioning and found that the electrical response diminished as the CR emerged . |