Example sentences of "[adv] ago that " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ England is an island without sea , or else an island that used to be sea-bound , only so long ago that the sea 's now evaporated . ’ |
| 2 | After all , it was n't that long ago that it was quite acceptable to belch smoke over the countryside . |
| 3 | It is not long ago that Mr Milken was being lionised as the greatest revitaliser of American business since J. Pierpont Morgan . |
| 4 | As to my husband , he does what he is told as ever and I have faced the truth long ago that the Brownings are more important to him than I am . |
| 5 | School was so long ago that we had passed into each others ' mythology , like people who met distantly in another country . |
| 6 | It was not all that long ago that you could see young men discreetly selling Bibles on the streets and they would melt away when the KGB , the enforcers of the atheist state , appeared . |
| 7 | But it was not so long ago that many leading Tories faulted it for being mismanaged , diffused , uncertain , failing to set the agenda ; in a word , bad . |
| 8 | The white father promised long ago that I could go back to my home , but the white men are big liars . |
| 9 | Deborah Dean had been nicknamed Dimity so long ago that the reason for the diminutive had been lost in the mists of time . |
| 10 | The majority of the indigenous cattle of Scandinavia are naturally polled : it seems that the northern stockmen , who because of the demands of climate needed to house their animals for long periods , appreciated long ago that horns could be awkward at close quarters and it is clear that polled stock were deliberately bred in Scandinavia from early times . |
| 11 | The long-established Manx cat is certainly as abnormal as any of them , with its strangely abbreviated backbone and the problems this causes , but its presence at cat shows was accepted so long ago that nobody now objects to its inclusion . |
| 12 | It was the thing she did best , and she had decided long ago that she would study in earnest as soon as she left school . |
| 13 | She had learnt long ago that Nahum 's chief interest in the Foundling Hospital was the boost it gave to his own ego being on the Board of Governors , a position acquired mainly through the generosity of his brother-in-law , John Bradford , who always supported the charity financially . |
| 14 | A detective said : ‘ Some of the murders he says he committed so long ago that he has difficulty in remembering where the bodies are buried . |
| 15 | ‘ It was so long ago that I 've almost forgotten . |
| 16 | It was n't that long ago that John Hurt was drinking heavily , and had been doing so for years . |
| 17 | Ever since my mother had explained to me at Culloden Moor long ago that the English and the Scots were different peoples , I had been intensely proud of my Scottish origins and of Scotland 's history as an independent nation . |
| 18 | And that is why Peter 's office decided long ago that he was not the person to be first to hear news about the latest software products . |
| 19 | The CICB said the woman were abused so long ago that their cases had to be considered under the pre-1979 rules which excluded compensation for offences committed by relatives living under the same roof . |
| 20 | How long ago that seemed ! |
| 21 | Well , practical purposes at this stage sir she maintains insufficient I 've no doubt the licensee will want to know a lot more about the situation , it 's very apparent it 's not long ago that they last ta transferred to their present holding . |
| 22 | If I recall rightly I think that it 's not that long ago that the licence was transferred to the present holder . |
| 23 | I decided long ago that I would cut out as soon as shooting began . |
| 24 | It 's not that long ago that Scots worked through Christmas , including Christmas day . |
| 25 | It was so long ago that it happened — it 's an everyday occurrence now , people battering and killing children . |
| 26 | But Rick Christie , a golf professional in Tampa , Florida , and a friend of Levi 's , said not too long ago that he should win half a dozen tournaments with his consistent swing . |
| 27 | In John the Baptist s ministry you find the fulfilment of the prophecies made long ago that a messenger would come to prepare the way of the Lord . |
| 28 | They were great fiddlers of long ago it 's not so long ago that I mind there was five fiddlers in our kitchen in Dalvaine , just each coming with a just to have a night at the fiddle . |
| 29 | ‘ Did n't I tell you not so long ago that there was only one area of my life I could countenance sharing with you — and that purely out of necessity ? ’ |
| 30 | It does n't seem that long ago that this column reported an addition to Matthew Hall 's family and hey presto he 's done it again . |