Example sentences of "[noun] of [adv] a [noun sg] ago " in BNC.

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1 He smiled back at her , and the knife twisted still deeper in Shae 's stomach , robbing her of the pleasure of just a moment ago .
2 Although from our experience of just a while ago I would say that , undoubtedly , beneath that frigid exterior there lurks an inferno of quite gigantic proportions . ’
3 Actual quantities , which exceed internal expectations of only a month ago , boil down to between 100,000 and 200,000 units a quarter , which in turn means that by the end of the current quarter Sun expects to be able to fill all the back orders it has for Model 41 Sparcstation 10s plus the orders it receives in the intervening weeks .
4 Actual quantities , which exceed internal expectations of only a month ago , boil down to between 100,000 and 200,000 units a quarter which in turn means that by the end of the current quarter Sun expects to be able to fill all the back orders it has for Model 41 Sparcstation 10s plus the orders they get in the intervening weeks .
5 Their former Serbian neighbours of just a week ago have also left , streaming in the opposite direction across the Drina into Serbia .
6 An additional and severe problem is that the volumes of data which are already collected are huge by the standards of only a decade ago .
7 Regardless of the method used to reproduce it , the typesetting systems of even a decade ago were slow , cumbersome and highly skill-intensive .
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