Example sentences of "or [adj] ago [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was on a fishing expedition in late autumn a year or two ago that we were visited by a number of pomarine skuas , no doubt birds from northern Siberia which were making their way towards wintering quarters in the south Atlantic . |
| 2 | Word was a year or two ago that the joints were popping with air-hostesses , models and career women : five minutes , a couple of lite beers , and you 'd be in a hotel room or service flat with some little darling doing the splits on your face . |
| 3 | Yes , and he did say when he phoned me a night or two ago that you might |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm rather lame people in the village say you 've caught arthritis , and I caught it a year or two ago but my brain has n't entirely given out . |
| 5 | While most practising firms are having no difficulty in retaining and recruiting staff in the midst of a recession , the situation was , of course , very different only a year or two ago and will probably change again just as rapidly . |
| 6 | The scene is much more complex than it was say a generation or two ago and Moderator we in the Church of England should be much interested to learn in due course whether you too will feel a need to make liturgical revision for these various paths to faith . |