Example sentences of "[art] [det] [noun] ago that " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suggested a little time ago that the surface indications offered both by Joyce 's life and by his writing up to including The Portrait — he does leave Ireland to live with his Nora in Triest , in Switzerland , in France , in Switzerland again , until his death in nineteen forty one , visiting Dublin for the last time in nineteen hundred and twelve — he does give us in Dubliners and The Portrait a sharp sense of the traps he feels he must escape from , the church tentacular , pervasive , the seedy provincialism , the narrowness , the philistine complacency . |
| 2 | I said a few moments ago that I would not exclude consideration or the need for consideration of the greenbelt purposes served . |
| 3 | I am sure that the Minister will recall that I said a few moments ago that in our view the role of regional government is not delivery of services . |
| 4 | But you said yourself just a few moments ago that I 've been involved in a world where drugs are common currency . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ … and homicide Lieutenant Wilson stated a few minutes ago that the police are closing in . |
| 6 | In view of the exhortation by the hon. Member for Southampton , Test ( Mr. Hill ) a few minutes ago that we should buy British when we buy food , I wonder whether the Minister can tell the House what representations he has received from the Ministry of Defence on his consultation document ? |
| 7 | So it was with some surprise a few years ago that our attention was drawn from the dull French film noir onscreen to the back of the cinema , where a couple were resolving a lovers ' squabble . |
| 8 | Submerged plants rarely attract attention except when they are a nuisance as in the rotting infestation of sea lettuce a few years ago that produced enough hydrogen sulphide gas to discolour housepaint and tarnish silverware in the unfortunate town of Deale , in Maryland . |
| 9 | You will remember that a decision was taken a few years ago that we would lay our track to the standard British gauge of 4′ 8½″ rather than to the Irish gauge of 5′ 3″ . |
| 10 | It is only a few years ago that we were being warned about the arrival of another ice age , for heavens ' sake ! |
| 11 | It was only a few years ago that cheques and cash were the only means of payment available . |
| 12 | ‘ Ah , ’ he said at the finish , ‘ there was a rumour a few years ago that some Russo had managed to get to the top of the mountain . ’ |
| 13 | Well I think an awful lot of people think of Oxfam and think of the shops , er and the shops have been terribly important to us for such a long time , but we 've found a few years ago that er people who , er were asked said that they would give money to Oxfam , but that they were n't necessarily always asked . |
| 14 | The decision to cut the federal funds rate — the level at which banks borrow from each other overnight — from 4 to 33/4 p.c. is a far cry from market concerns of a few weeks ago that the Fed might soon tighten monetary policy . |
| 15 | There was a rumour doing the rounds a few weeks ago that one of the big supermarket chains was on the point of phasing out its organic food lines . |
| 16 | remember that just a few weeks ago that you were de , almost denying that we 'd have to do this sort of thing ! |
| 17 | ‘ I found out a few weeks ago that the canon there says prayers for John every day . ’ |
| 18 | It was n't but a few months ago that I was telling them how bad everything was , how we had to keep our spending down to new lower budgets because if we did n't the next cuts we would have to make would be human ones . |
| 19 | ‘ Were n't you saying something a few months ago that too quiet a life was bad for a writer 's creativity ? |
| 20 | The way it is at present , we can not , we can not get more loot to put into the new project but the bank manager , i.e. the Chancellor of the Exchequer , reminded us a few months ago that the other way of funding our projects he encouraged us to look at our current assets and if possible liquidate some of that asset and fund it , or or use it to fund our new schemes and this Mr Mayor is what we should be doing . |