Example sentences of "[noun] just over a [noun sg] ago " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two young constables who joined the force just over a year ago expressed concern at a plan to judge police performance on the number of arrests . |
| 2 | Mark Kershaw , who started as general manager at Ayr just over a year ago with the task of halting the track 's headlong hurtle towards debts of £1 million , described the rescue package as ‘ an enormous boost , not only for Ayr racecourse , but Scottish racing ’ . |
| 3 | Mark Clayton joined Eastwell Manor as head chef just over a year ago . |
| 4 | He returned to action just over a week ago to show an impressive turn of foot in winning the Prix du Prince d'Orange . |
| 5 | George put the finishing touches to the last episode just over a week ago , and the new ITV series starts next Sunday . |
| 6 | We began our preparation just over a year ago when Father Tim announced that people of 15 years or over could apply to be confirmed . |
| 7 | From my point of view , we had originally hoped to progress this proposal just over a year ago when spare money became available , but unfortunately , the bureaucratic process and conservatism of the people involved prevented us from doing this in time . |
| 8 | That theft and recovery had taken place just over a year ago . |
| 9 | Even when Liz had come over for Mr Harding 's funeral , which had taken place just over a year ago , Laura had n't felt able to explain all of the difficulties she had faced . |
| 10 | Princess Stephanie gave birth to their son Louis just over a week ago . |
| 11 | More recently the Solstice has attracted thousands of New Age travellers , but they 've been banned this year by the same injuctions that now govern Castlemorton common in Worcestershire , where an illegal festival just over a year ago attracted 20,000 travellers . |
| 12 | Because , with the death of her father just over a year ago , and with her only other living relative , her cousin Liz , living so far away in America , both she and Julie — who also had no close family of her own — were able to provide company for each other . |
| 13 | Most of Frank Jordan 's 24 horses are fast ground specialists and his First Crack , successful at Wolverhampton by seven lengths just over a week ago , can make a winning reappearance in the Henley Hall Gold Challenge Cup Handicap Hurdle . |
| 14 | Their success follows hard on the heels of their performance just over a week ago at the Observer International Mace debating competition , when they won their way to the four-team final in a field of 150 teams . |
| 15 | ‘ It was a direct result of seeing the need for something different that could allow people to go out to sea no matter what the weather was like outside , that I went to see the lifeboat just over a year ago . ’ |
| 16 | When John Taylor was selected as Cheltenham 's Tory candidate just over a year ago , the local Conservative party had to fight hard to heal divisions within its own association , about his appointment . |
| 17 | Murray Pugh was stabbed to death in Cheltenham just over a week ago . |
| 18 | I sent one of our officials to Mogadishu and northern Somalia just over a week ago . |
| 19 | The recycling scheme is run by the non-profit making Save-a-Cup Recycling Company which was set up by a group of plastic cup manufacturers and a number of companies in the UK vending and foodservice industries just over a year ago . |
| 20 | Julie first came into contact with the power of crystals just over a year ago , when she happened to visit a psychic fair . |
| 21 | I supervised her professional training while she was working at the Macaulay Land Use Research Institute at Penicuik , and appointed her as an Assistant Librarian at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh just over a year ago . |
| 22 | It is the co-production with Opera North first seen in Leeds just over a year ago . |
| 23 | I refer to the case of Mustapha Akkawi , who was killed after being tortured in prison just over a week ago . |
| 24 | Almost half a million pounds damage was caused by the fire at Holy Trinity Roman Catholic School at Chipping Norton in Oxfordshire just over a week ago . |
| 25 | Dalglish , whose side visit Southampton tomorrowsun , got his priorities right when he took on the former Luton and Wimbledon boss as his right-hand man soon after taking office just over a year ago . |