Example sentences of "[vb past] [num] [noun] ago " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If anything can be concluded from this book , it is that I was born , ’ writes Sisson after touching on that event , which occurred 75 years ago in a building since occupied by the Bristol Rovers Supporters Club . |
| 2 | It was made from a recipe his grandmother used 70 years ago — flower of elder , citric acid , lemon and sugar . |
| 3 | The only disturbance to the peace of this natural sanctuary occurred 120 years ago when a spectacular railway was laid at a high level across the head of the valley ; this apart , Dentdale today is very much as it was three centuries ago , happily free from modern developments and well content to remain so . |
| 4 | Augmented by their co-religionists through the centuries , often in response to waves of persecution such as the expulsion from Spain which occurred 500 years ago this month . |
| 5 | My wife and I divorced 12 years ago — and she has since remarried . |
| 6 | It has been argued that the mechanism of synaptic reinforcement at work here follows a rule that the psychologist Donald Hebb proposed forty years ago as the neuronal basis of memory : when an input pattern is successful in making a neuron fire , then the synapses that took part in making it fire are strengthened . |
| 7 | The figure reported 12 months ago was grossly understated . |
| 8 | AT forty-three , divorced six years ago , I frankly admit I want a man . |
| 9 | EIE has bought 446,000 square feet of offices in two blocks of 11 and 15 storeys which make up Britannic House West , built 10 years ago and close to the Bank of England . |
| 10 | The bottle you tasted six months ago is now softer and more appealing ; the one you drank yesterday should have lost its sharp edges by the summer . |
| 11 | One does n't have to insist that there is a direct connection between something created 4,500 years ago and something created in this century in order that there may be a valid comparison . |
| 12 | The President said Parliament would be allowed a free vote on the reintroduction of the death penalty , which de Klerk suspended three years ago . |
| 13 | When my right hon. Friend the Minister of State next has contact with the Indonesian ambassador , will he express the abhorrence of the House at the indiscriminate shooting of men , women and children in Dili , which I visited three years ago with other hon. Members ? |
| 14 | The new car will be a coupe version of the Rover 800 executive car and will be styled on the CCV concept car which Rover designed three years ago . |
| 15 | They were greeted by a rousing reception from the town 's starving inhabitants , who have been under siege since the war erupted 11 months ago . |
| 16 | The Ombudsman , Sir Anthony Barrowclough , is telling MPs that the report is being finalised , though an early draft is believed to recommend that not all the investors should be compensated for the losses they suffered when the investment group crashed 18 months ago . |
| 17 | Mrs Hopkins , who has daughters Tracey , 28 , Lorraine , 26 and Claire , 18 , divorced 18 years ago . |
| 18 | Some are originals from the 2 million documents dating back to the early 1600s which are stored in the Hydrographic Office , and some are sophisticated copies made from the originals used 50 years ago . |
| 19 | Most of us , though , have learnt to beware the double handshake : hand clasped and hand on arm , all at once , It was a beguiling technique perfected 50 years ago by Adolf Hitler when he gained the chancellorship of Germany . |
| 20 | Above him is a clock which stopped 50 years ago and has not been wound since . |
| 21 | A CAIRN has been raised in honour of two Polish pilots who died when their planes crashed 50 years ago . |
| 22 | Perhaps the strangest case on record is that described five years ago in The Lancet ( 1978 , vol 2 , p 952 ) by Dr M. Loughhead and two colleagues at the Royal Hobart Hospital , Tasmania . |
| 23 | Kabul saw its quietest day since battles between the army and the Hezb-i-Islami erupted 27 days ago . |
| 24 | My next effort was a ‘ coffee table ’ book on English Sporting Prints , also out of print , and , in my hundredth year I am trying to complete a Catalogue of English Sporting Prints c.1750–1880 , promised twenty years ago . |
| 25 | My first doubts about hypnotism surfaced twenty years ago in a Manchester nightclub . |
| 26 | And Tony from Telford says , I spent years combing my hair over my bald patch , it stopped four months ago and I 'm much much happier . |
| 27 | Frank Malton , 77 , of Acacia Street , Darlington , has called for action on a dangerous broken grating on Brinkburn Road which he reported two months ago but found yesterday that nothing has been done . |
| 28 | Marshall , 34 , who announced his retirement from international cricket after the World Cup , has signed a new contract with the county and will fill a gap created two years ago when Paul Terry stepped down as No 2 to Mark Nicholas . |
| 29 | The couple , who divorced four months ago after 16 years of marriage , just ‘ could n't live apart ’ . |
| 30 | No details on coherence of the supersecret X-ray laser demonstrated two years ago at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have been reported in public , but it seems that that device probably would not have generated coherent output for similar reasons |