Example sentences of "[noun pl] ago [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Logging in the area was banned four months ago over concern for unique bird , plant and primate species in the remaining five per cent of the original forest . |
| 2 | But a report from the London Society of Chartered Accountants says that firms among the 250 quizzed are even less optimistic than they were four months ago about the general business outlook . |
| 3 | In preparation for my recent trip to Cyprus I recalled the letter which Ron Swinburne of Birmingham wrote to you many months ago about the flying services available on the island at rates far below those of the UK . |
| 4 | I intended to write to you months ago about your Housework issue ( NI 181 ) but have been too busy ironing , cooking and looking after children — as well as ‘ working ’ . |
| 5 | It so happened that the local station was still waiting on the True Brit for recognition of a tidbit passed on to that paper six months ago about a rural dean and a lady elephant-tamer . |
| 6 | Er we set up on a regional basis er er Robert talked to you a couple of months ago about the initiatives that he 's taking from our and that again is a very much of a cross practice initiative er which is drawing on all the skills that we 've got within the with within the office penetrate the middle market sector and we are going to er specifically use er our grounds expertise and er computer audit expertise as a product which we saw would be attractive to these er these sort of companies . |
| 7 | Dr Smith explained that MB Group , formerly Metal Box , had identified Caradon 18 months ago as a suitable means of expanding into building products but the company had had to reorganise itself and create a new management team to make the current deal possible . |
| 8 | I bought an Amstrad 5086 just 2 months ago as a total novice , not even familiar with a keyboard on the advice of the staff of my local Dixon 's store . |
| 9 | Four or five months ago on a gentle Autumn evening I climbed some steep stairs in a converted house in Holland Park to call upon my then closest friend and ally , the Robert whom my agent mentioned so cunningly and cruelly in his self-exposing telephone conversation this morning . |
| 10 | He was arrested two months ago on a charge of trafficking in drugs . |
| 11 | Two months ago on an innocent April afternoon , yet already she had lived through a lifetime of sorrow . |
| 12 | I saw some of this ( in hanks ) only a few months ago on a stand at a street market . |
| 13 | Er Stuart , Stuart did phone me some months ago on this issue , to say he was having increasing difficulty getting to the meetings , and he asked me if er I would take it on , and I said , I would if , you know , if he were pushed . |
| 14 | For some time our policy towards Latin America and , indeed , towards other parts of the developing world , has been guided by a speech made by my right hon. Friend some months ago on good government . |
| 15 | He had been asked to speak some months ago on the subject , ‘ A Woman 's Place ’ . |
| 16 | Er there was a lady fell over about two months ago on that footpath just at the beginning of the winter , and the cathedral council offered to pay for the installation of a light and what we did we contributed seventy seven pounds which is sixty including V A T to enable a second light to be installed because of the two steps on that footpath , one at each end , erm |
| 17 | The surgeries at Crook , Peterlee , Consett and Chester-le-Street reopened 16 months ago on a trial basis for half-a-day each week . |
| 18 | The midfield player , bought from Hull 18 months ago for £250,000 , scored 10 goals last season , including two in the Simod cup final against Everton . |
| 19 | Details of the bonus scheme for the station 's senior management emerged yesterday at a special meeting of shareholders called to approve the departure of Mr Arthur Price , former head of MTM , TVS 's loss-making US production arm which it bought 18 months ago for £190million . |
| 20 | Details of the bonus scheme for the station 's senior management emerged yesterday at a special meeting of shareholders called to approve the departure of Mr Arthur Price , former head of MTM , TVS 's loss-making US production arm which it bought 18 months ago for £190million . |
| 21 | Mr Taylor refused to blame the race row that greeted his adoption 18 months ago for his defeat by Mr Nigel Jones , who won with a six per cent swing to the Liberal Democrats . |
| 22 | Out and about today in our office Porsche 924 , a red 1982 model bought six months ago for £2500 . |
| 23 | ‘ The system works through eight black boxes , each focusing on one colour harmony , ’ explains Lorna , who bought her franchise 18 months ago for £10,000 ( plus VAT ) . |
| 24 | When Kendall snapped him up from the Anfield out-tray 16 months ago for £1m , everybody said what a bargain he had bought . |
| 25 | Lee had 10 years at Charlton before making the switch to the north east to join the Geordies two months ago for £700,000 . |
| 26 | Palace spent £100,000 on sending 23-year-old Salako across the Atlantic 12 months ago for revolutionary donor surgery . |
| 27 | Proceedings have been started to remove 51-year-old Mr Missen and his 49-year-old girlfriend from the property which was put on the market over 18 months ago for £250,000 . |
| 28 | One of them three months ago for a violent attack . |
| 29 | FOR US , was a good day out , but planning for the Summer Fayre started about eight months ago for the Summer Fayre committee who held their first meeting last October ! |
| 30 | Eighteen months previously President Kennedy had ordered the withdrawal of the American missiles in Turkey but eighteen months later those missiles were still there and when Kennedy was presented with this bargain , bargaining counter by Khrushchev he sort of shouted at his chiefs of staff and secretary of defence and anyone else he could shout at and sort of said what the hell are those missiles still doing in Turkey , I told you eighteen months ago for God 's sake get rid of them ! |