Example sentences of "ago but " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bill Murray spent £50,000 on setting up his restaurant at Telegraph Hill , near Exeter , Devon , two years ago but said the business started to go downhill when he handed it over to a manager to run . |
| 2 | That was four weeks ago but it is still evident . |
| 3 | This book came out about a year ago but merits a mention because the subject matter will interest quite a number of our members . |
| 4 | Millwall v Arsenal Arsenal still have to find their form of a year ago but they continue to pick up points at regular intervals , and with Marwood fit and Groves recovered from a virus they should have the resources to beat a Millwall side again lacking Briley and looking for their first League win since September 23 . |
| 5 | The glitzy building — boasting an address on Bishopsgate , now one of the City 's favoured streets — was opened just three years ago but became an obvious target once the bank needed to put the family silver up for auction to improve its financial standing . |
| 6 | Wright has not played for England since the European Championship game against Holland 18 months ago but Robson has been sufficiently impressed by his League form to recall him to the squad . |
| 7 | The conservative Blaize , who died of prostate cancer and had been confined to a wheelchair for the past year , lost his parliamentary majority five months ago but had clung to office despite opposition protests . |
| 8 | Inflation remains 5% a month , a big improvement on a year ago but still worrying . |
| 9 | He suffered a great personal tragedy two years ago but he remains with the orchestra . |
| 10 | Willie Robertson , 42 , the Liberal Democrat candidate , joined the party just three years ago but has an unbridled enthusiasm for the stump and feels that a sizeable proportion of Tories — disaffected by Mr Forsyth 's ardent Thatcherism — could switch to him . |
| 11 | It was only 13 years ago but it really was a different world . |
| 12 | The total value of cross-border deals in the first three months of this year at $13.3 billion was 45 p.c. up on the corresponding period a year ago but was still well below the 1989 peak when the quarterly average reached $32.6 billion . |
| 13 | Some modern building was carried out over five or six years ago but there had been very little in the past years . |
| 14 | She spoke charitably of what happened so long ago but her attitude was to grow colder as the evening wore on . |
| 15 | Here the limestone of the Force gives way to peat moorlands pierced by disused coal pits , abandoned long ago but temporarily revived by the villagers during the coal strike of 1926 . |
| 16 | As Clarke and Morrison discuss , their data are comparable with other studies in Fiji : such losses were known to be occurring more than 20 years ago but went unheeded in the wake of development . |
| 17 | It was built over 1,800 years ago but , incredibly , some sections still stand almost to their original height , and there is still plenty to see along its whole length . |
| 18 | Are they pieces of parent body that broke up and sent a special type of debris into a path crossing the orbit of the Earth hundreds of thousands of years ago but which is no longer falling on the Earth ? |
| 19 | His process was superseded long ago but his name is still used for a type of raincoat . |
| 20 | The house disappeared long ago but a monument erected near the site in 1825 bears witness to the life and death of a sincere Christian man who was prepared to die for his Faith . |
| 21 | The practice stopped many years ago but in many farm kitchens in the county , the hooks can still be seen . |
| 22 | Scientists were aware of gallium 's potential as a semiconductor 30 years ago but come the computer revolution it remained largely ignored . |
| 23 | She should have thrown it out years ago but somehow she 'd never had the heart . |
| 24 | Mr Hitch 's son told me that there was a lack of enthusiasm a few years ago but , with new blood on the committee , it is once again gaining in popularity . |
| 25 | Jeane , Ann and Jenny attended Cranham Community Church a year ago but I was not interested : too busy doing something or other . |
| 26 | I believe Warwick changed over to using steel truss rods about eight or nine months ago but I would urge owners to have their basses checked as soon as possible , and would appreciate some kind of response from Warwick as to the precise situation . |
| 27 | I sent away for a video instruction tape over two months ago ; the cheque was cashed well over a month ago but as yet I have not received the tape . |
| 28 | While I 'm on the subject , whatever happened to the Randy Hansen interview which was promised quite a while ago but never appeared ? |
| 29 | It 's a magic technique and one which I first tried years ago but never knitted as a pattern as not many people then had the facilities to make use of it . |
| 30 | Some others were fitted a few months ago but they have n't been wired up to the Economy meter and we dare n't use them because we would n't be able to afford the bills . ’ |