Example sentences of "ago [that] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He informed the Prime Minister four months ago that he would now like a break from Government office . |
| 32 | But it was not so long ago that many leading Tories faulted it for being mismanaged , diffused , uncertain , failing to set the agenda ; in a word , bad . |
| 33 | Nadine Dorries of Company Kids says predictions five years ago that by 1992 workplace nurseries would be as common as staff canteens were wide of the mark . |
| 34 | Though they will travel well prepared , the Lancashire club have no idea as to the strength of opposition they will meet , Harlequins having indicated some time ago that a number of their senior players may have other commitments during the Easter break . |
| 35 | The news two weeks ago that Orlando had beaten both Miami and Tampa Bay to the Florida vote to become one of the nine World Cup venues was a considerable surprise . |
| 36 | The white father promised long ago that I could go back to my home , but the white men are big liars . |
| 37 | Would you have thought a year ago that you would be spending your next name-day in Paris ? |
| 38 | Ladies and gentlemen , he would say , Ladies and gentlemen , now it gives me very great pleasure to introduce the woman who is responsible for holding this whole show together ; the woman who first understood all those years ago that there was crying need for a place where all you lovely people could gather of an evening , the one that we all know and love , and so … would you please welcome on stage , the very lovely , the very talented … once again … our very own … and sometimes he would fade out , and not even say her name , and he would pause , he would make us wait , he would suspend his elegant hands over the keys ; and then , in that silence , he would play the first notes of the actual song itself . |
| 39 | Deborah Dean had been nicknamed Dimity so long ago that the reason for the diminutive had been lost in the mists of time . |
| 40 | Daube argued several years ago that ‘ it is time to revise our legal construction … of surgery in general ’ , and criticized the fact that it was still considered an assault rendered lawful by consent . |
| 41 | There is a greater recognition than there was five years ago that the ten million people over retirement age are not homogeneous . |
| 42 | It was not really until the emergence of a more holistic Green politics four or five years ago that we began to see how powerful are the connections between those two apparently separate sets of concerns . |
| 43 | The majority of the indigenous cattle of Scandinavia are naturally polled : it seems that the northern stockmen , who because of the demands of climate needed to house their animals for long periods , appreciated long ago that horns could be awkward at close quarters and it is clear that polled stock were deliberately bred in Scandinavia from early times . |
| 44 | My dear mother 's statement years ago that I deprived her of her fur coat and that I was n't much to look at — she once actually pronounced me ugly — bit deep . |
| 45 | I recall some years ago that a young postgraduate student who was designing a schedule containing a lot of attitude questions had his schedule internally tested at this stage by a number of people and practically every question he had put was a double one . |
| 46 | It was over 60 years ago that Sir Jesse Boot ( later Lord Trent ) , founder of the Boots Company , made a magnificent gift of land and money which enabled the University College to move from Nottingham town centre . |
| 47 | I have always had a slightly suspicious attitude to information on road accidents since the Road Research Laboratory ( I think it was ) , proved some years ago that if you were killed in an accident at any age over forty , you were doing the country an economic favour . |
| 48 | 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 . |
| 49 | Palaeontologists realised about 50 years ago that the separate elements were really part of a skeletal apparatus of some sort — perhaps the jaw apparatus or gill support structure of primitive vertebrates or invertebrates . |
| 50 | Toomey also sees the decline in human terms : ‘ If you 'd have said to me 20 years ago that there would be no trading floor at the Stock Exchange , I would n't have believed it , ’ he says . |
| 51 | The long-established Manx cat is certainly as abnormal as any of them , with its strangely abbreviated backbone and the problems this causes , but its presence at cat shows was accepted so long ago that nobody now objects to its inclusion . |
| 52 | It was the thing she did best , and she had decided long ago that she would study in earnest as soon as she left school . |
| 53 | THE NATIONAL MARRIAGE GUIDANCE COUNCIL ( now called RELATE ) recognised a long time ago that the fabric of society has changed and one of the reasons for the organisation 's change of name is that it now deals with all personal crisis situations . |
| 54 | She had learnt long ago that Nahum 's chief interest in the Foundling Hospital was the boost it gave to his own ego being on the Board of Governors , a position acquired mainly through the generosity of his brother-in-law , John Bradford , who always supported the charity financially . |
| 55 | It 's little more than a century ago that women were still being led to market to be sold to the highest bidder — in England . |
| 56 | It was a hundred and fifty years ago that the French writer Alphonse Karr said : ‘ the more things change , the more they are the same . ’ |
| 57 | ‘ This was about eighteen months ago that she died , ’ Mrs Ridley went on . |
| 58 | It had been announced only a month ago that she was expecting her first child and would probably be leaving after the spring term . |
| 59 | It was , after all , less than a year ago that he sold a substantial quantity of Amstrad shares . |
| 60 | 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 . |