Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] of a [noun sg] ago " in BNC.
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| 1 | The enthusiastic liberal solutions of a decade ago seem to have failed ; the rise of passionate single-issue politics , the decline of party loyalty and the new brittleness that resists compromises make the tasks of leadership more difficult . ’ |
| 2 | During the debate speaker after speaker called for a return to the Thatcherite economics of a decade ago . |
| 3 | So different from the brooding and unhappy man of a week ago . |
| 4 | The negative approach of a year ago is unchanged . |
| 5 | Shipments of cars to Middle East markets rose by 60 p.c. when compared with the Gulf war-affected levels of a year ago . |
| 6 | From the cheerful babble of a moment ago , there was now total silence . |
| 7 | After a demoralising season of gallery retractions and closures , more severe than even the most pessimistic expectations of a year ago , it is gratifying to report a promising new gallery which opened in a large industrial space in West Hampstead in the middle of last month . |
| 8 | Those figures compare with £1.49 million raised in the sale of British paintings in November 1992 and £1.12 million in the comparable sale of a year ago . |
| 9 | In Hong Kong , as in many African countries and Europe as well , the disappearance of the more settled residents of a generation ago makes it difficult to recruit for the church choir . |
| 10 | He points out that petrol is now very cheap : if , in real terms , it were to be the equivalent price of a decade ago it would cost over £4 a gallon . |