Example sentences of "over a [noun] ago " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was something that he and I talked about over a two-year period , and then he got hit with throat cancer a little over a year ago . |
| 2 | French museums were alerted to the painting a little over a year ago when its owners contacted them after finding a foreign buyer . |
| 3 | A little over a year ago he married Miss Doris Pike , daughter of Mr and Mrs M. Pike , of 6 , The Crescent , Halfway . |
| 4 | Visual illusions are an excellent illustration , in fact , of the division between a specialized and autonomous mechanism for seeing and the cognitive system which determines whether we should believe what we see , as Helmholtz pointed out over a century ago . |
| 5 | The outside wheel is an iron breastshot unit locally made in Tewkesbury over a century ago , and replaced an older wooden one . |
| 6 | In Germany , over a century ago , the Abbé Kneip founded the practice of hydrotherapy . |
| 7 | Just over a century ago the island of Krakatoa in Indonesia blew itself out of existence . |
| 8 | It is this turn to ‘ passivity ’ which remains critical to this very day ; today 's tabloid press can only be reinforcing a process which began well over a century ago . |
| 9 | Over a century ago Broca demonstrated that patients with damage involving part of the prefrontal cortex of the left hemisphere had severe speech deficits , although they could understand what was said to them . |
| 10 | The information available over a century ago on the customs and beliefs of exotic tribal peoples was incomparably poorer than it is today . |
| 11 | Otherwise it is as complete as it was over a century ago , with no less than 700 lots being offered for sale in two parts . |
| 12 | Abolished just a little over a century ago , it merits just a short paragraph in many school textbooks . |
| 13 | Since its initial description over a century ago fewer than 150 cases of Dieulafoy 's disease have been reported . |
| 14 | It can be argued that these associations serve as shelters and nurseries for mites , which , in turn , eat herbivorous arthropods and pathogens , a general theory put forward by Lundstrom over a century ago . |
| 15 | As that other man had been … over a century ago . |
| 16 | Just over a fortnight ago two of Tyson 's more controversial penalty decisions had help spark a free-for-all at the end of the League match between Arsenal and Norwich City which led to both clubs being charged with bringing the game into disrepute . |
| 17 | After rescuing McAllister just over a fortnight ago , he had told himself firmly , This must stop ! and himself had refused to listen . |
| 18 | But that was erm , over a fortnight ago and they came and they er , rewired er , rewired the house , in fact Doctor |
| 19 | Dismissed as a novelty when it first appeared on record over a decade ago , rap has proved itself remarkably durable . |
| 20 | Your chances of coming down to London and finding someone who may have been there over a decade ago are not just slim , they 're non-existent . |
| 21 | Sweden recognised the problem well over a decade ago and began legislation to limit the allowed dose ; it has the most advanced testing programme in Europe with well over 70000 homes measured and over 2000 remedied . |
| 22 | Hugh Manson has made hundreds and hundreds of custom guitars since he turned full-time over a decade ago , and now he 's decided to standardise some of his most popular guitars into the ‘ Classic ’ range . |
| 23 | The same situation was prevalent in England over a decade ago , and while the new breed of English walls has blossomed to state of the art types such as Newcastle 's Berghaus Wall , Scotland 's walls remain poor relatives . |
| 24 | Cordless power-tools are doing for woodworkers what Fast Food did for the High Street over a decade ago . |
| 25 | Such a policy was first suggested over a decade ago when it seemed that a Polytechnics Central Council on Admissions , styled PCCA and doubtless pronounced ‘ Pukka ’ , would not be inappropriate . |
| 26 | Tomorrow night we 'll show exclusive pictures of the MG RV8 on the road and ask why Rover is to bring back the car it killed off over a decade ago . |
| 27 | Their enthusiasm remains as infectious in the 90s as it was over a decade ago and we proudly welcome them to the Guinness Spot for their first and keenly anticipated visit to Belfast . |
| 28 | They hope people will come forward with information about the boy who vanished in one of the town 's parks over a week ago . |
| 29 | Certainly the last letter was dated the beginning of August , that 's over a month ago . |
| 30 | ‘ Amedeo , excited like a virgin by the bombardments , has gone to Cagnes near Nice over a month ago … |