Example sentences of "[noun] ago [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is possible the discovery could be part of Middle Eastern terrorism — two months ago a terrorist was blown up by his own bomb in a London hotel in an incident later linked to the Satanic Verses affair . |
| 2 | A few months ago a newspaper carried the story of a couple who had created a garden — now to be opened to the public — during the years that they were housebound , caring for sick relatives . |
| 3 | Less than two months ago a Thai A310 also smashed into a mountain near Katmandu , killing 113 . |
| 4 | Three months ago a worker died and another was badly injured when a lorry ploughed into them on the hard shoulder . |
| 5 | Some months ago a gang of local youngsters asked if I could help them in this direction . |
| 6 | Twelve months ago a 41 year old man suffering from Parkinson 's Disease underwent a revolutionary operation . |
| 7 | Does the Secretary of State notice that 12 months ago every vacant job in Wales was chased by nine unemployed people but that by last month 13 unemployed people were chasing each vacancy ? |
| 8 | EIGHT months ago the conservative Daily Telegraph seemed a happy media parable of modern Britain . |
| 9 | Two months ago the government ordered the removal of all red stars from public buildings . |
| 10 | Two months ago the company was confident that sponsorships would be in place by Christmas . |
| 11 | Three months ago the firm announced a £300m reorganisation , sorting the group into seven different areas . |
| 12 | A few months ago the plant recruited its first workers — the men and women , mainly aged under 25 , whose minds and fingers are agile enough to turn out microscopic silicon chips by the hundreds of thousands . |
| 13 | Eighteen months ago the CBI suggested that the HSE take on a number of extra people to monitor the burgeoning biotechnology industry , but this has not been done . |
| 14 | Just a few months ago the Queen Mother wore a Hartnell creation to the wedding of Lady Helen Windsor . |
| 15 | Six months ago the auctioneers were showered with bids from rich Mexicans . |
| 16 | Luckily , 21-year-old Emma , was well enough to make the trip to St. Bart 's on Monday morning by train , said Lyn , — but a few months ago the situation would have been completely different . |
| 17 | Two months ago the Musée des Beaux-Arts inaugurated the first phase of its renovation scheme with the opening of thirty-one new rooms devoted to painting and works of art of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries . |
| 18 | Geoffrey Smith of Windrush tells me that copies of the Windrush Island Guide to Northern Cyprus , until a couple of months ago the only in-depth guide to that part of the island , have been defaced in a number of London bookshops . |
| 19 | I shop there a lot as it 's so handy for my offices , and I seem to recall that about six months ago the floristry section was moved from an upper floor where no one ever saw it right on to the Oxford Street frontage . ’ |
| 20 | Two months ago the British government took out advertisements in regional newspapers in Germany encouraging business to come to Britain to take advantage of low labour costs compared to elsewhere in the E C. The advertisement proudly noted that the labour cost index for Britain is one hundred , compared to one seventy eight in Germany . |
| 21 | So three months ago the club ended up with an efficient and honest chairman and secretary . ’ |
| 22 | Months ago the couple had bought tickets for a Benjamin Britten concert in Aldeburgh . |
| 23 | Mayor , three months ago the E I D sub-committee Labour members rejected the Employment Action Scheme . |
| 24 | Until eighteen months ago Wiltshire was the most undermanned force in this country , and that 's not our figures , that was the Home Office formula which produced that , and because of that eighteen months ago the Home Secretary actually granted this force an extra sixty- seven policemen and he gave none to anybody else . |
| 25 | Five months ago the castle was the subject of a second mortgage application for which Mrs Willies-Williams was sentenced to nine months in jail , suspended for two years , for attempted fraud . |
| 26 | Fourteen months ago the family left Gloucestershire to visit Farash 's home country . |
| 27 | Six months ago the council called in the police to investigate claims that building materials had been misappropriated for private use . |
| 28 | Five months ago the nation 's media mounted stepladders , physically and metaphorically , to get a better look at him . |
| 29 | For example , where 18 months ago the annual income on a level annuity might have been 13 per cent , now a new annuity might offer 12 per cent . |
| 30 | but when we 've read those we 've got to look up what else Jesus said , remember a few months ago the passage we read from Luke thirteen and they will come from the East and the West and from the North and the South and will recline at the table in the Kingdom of God , they will come he says from all directions , we work and hold and these two scriptures intention , we 've got ta compare one with the other , then we 'll read also John in that tremendous vision in the book of revelation he would he says what he saw there , in chapter seven verse nine after these things I looked and behold a great multitude which no one could count from every nation and all tribes and peoples and tongues standing before the throne and before the lamb , clothe in white robes and palm branches were in their hands and they cried out with a loud voice saying salvation to our God who sits on the throne and to the lamb , a handful of people , tiny minority , John says it was a great number , a multitude which no one could count from every nation , from every ethnic group , from every tribe and , and , and , and race on the face of the earth there in God 's heaven how grateful you and I should be , if we are among that number , it 's God 's grace , it 's not that we 've deserved it , it 's not that we have been privileged by some genetic er process to have been born in a so called a nominally Christian country , it is all of God 's grace , it 's not what we have done or what we are , but we have been saved by his grace and just for a few moments this morning , I 'd like us to from this question that was put to Jesus to follow on and if you like get five propositions from it , it sounds complicated but it 's not . |