English example sentences with "ago"

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If I wanted to scare you, I would tell you what I dreamt about a few weeks ago.
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It happened a long time ago.
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Didn't you know that he passed away two years ago?
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Don't you know that he passed away two years ago?
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You should have completed it long ago.
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You should have told me a long time ago.
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You look the way your father did thirty years ago.
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You only started this job an hour ago.
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It was twenty years ago as I look back on it.
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The meeting finished thirty minutes ago.
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Our rent is four times as much as it was ten years ago.
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Some years ago, learning that one had tuberculosis amounted to hearing a sentence of death.
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Years ago, she used to hang around with a bunch of bikers.
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Many animals that lived thousands of years ago are now extinct.
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I was here about a year ago.
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I met her an hour ago.
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It stopped snowing an hour ago.
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The doctors say the dying man should have kicked the bucket hours ago, were he an ordinary man, but he is still defying death.
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Lucy came to see me three days ago.
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Rick and Carol broke up two months ago, but he's still carrying a torch for her.
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Oh, sure, I studied English in my school days. But it wasn't until two or three years ago that I really started taking it seriously.
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Without oxygen, all animals would have disappeared long ago.
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Mulligan has been riding high since he seized the crown in a come-from-behind victory 14 months ago.
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I remember it as if it were yesterday, but in reality it was fifteen years ago.
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What have you done with my pen? It was here a minute ago.
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What were the balls made of? Thousands of years ago, the Egyptians made balls out of soft leather or cloth.
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Bill joined our company three years ago.
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Long ago in early cultures, the ball in the game was the symbol of the sun.
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The bus passed five minutes ago.
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How long ago did the bus leave?
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Degas was born more than 150 years ago.
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But of course that was a long time ago.
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What has become of the book I put here a few minutes ago?
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It was ages ago.
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That was only a year ago.
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How long ago was that?
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It was three days ago.
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It was due a week ago, namely on April second.
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The story reminds me of an experience I had long ago.
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The old man had his only son die three years ago.
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The old man retired from public life ten years ago.
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The train arrived safely at the station a few minutes ago.
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The train pulled out two hours ago.
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The airplane took off ten minutes ago.
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The university was founded by his father twenty years ago.
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The village is now very different from what it was ten years ago.
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The war took place 45 years ago.
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The wife and son of the statesman died three years ago.
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The man died a few hours ago.
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The shrine was built two hundred years ago.
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That portrait reminds me of someone I knew a long time ago.
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The lady moved here a month ago.
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The accident happened two years ago.
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The accident happened a year ago today.
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The accident happened two hours ago.
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That event happened 15 years ago.
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How long ago did the author die?
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The author is seventy, but he's no less productive than he was twenty years ago.
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The building crumbled to pieces three years ago.
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The church was built hundreds of years ago.
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The school was founded seventy years ago.
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The house was built several hundred years ago.
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My house, which I bought ten years ago, still looks new.
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Instead, I will turn to a discussion of the two economic variables I defined a moment ago.
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Mr Smith founded this school forty years ago.
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Mr Smith lived in Kyoto three years ago.
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Years ago this principle was widely recognized.
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You left me standing alone here on this road a long, long time ago.
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Susan left an hour ago.
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John is not the man that he was three years ago.
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John is not the man he was three years ago.
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Johnny moved to Spain just a few months ago, so he isn't used to speaking Spanish as yet.
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Jane came to our town three years ago.
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Shakespeare, whose plays are world-famous, lived some four hundred years ago.
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This is the same purse that I lost a week ago.
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This is the same watch that I lost a week ago.
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This is the same wallet as I lost a week ago.
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This was built long ago.
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This was built some 500 years ago.
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This town is quite different from what it was ten years ago.
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This area was first settled by the Dutch more than two hundred years ago.
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This statue was erected ten years ago.
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This novel describes the life of the Japanese as it was a hundred years ago.
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This custom became extinct a long time ago.
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This temple is said to have been built over 500 years ago.
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This dog was born two months ago.
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This bridge was built two years ago.
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When I visited my hometown this summer, I found the city different from what it had been ten years ago.
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This TV was made ten years ago and there are no parts available, so it is impossible to repair it.
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I bought this computer one year ago and it's already a dinosaur.
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It's almost hard to believe all these beautiful things were made by hand such a long time ago.
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It was just two weeks ago that Ken came to see me.
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Whales are said to have lived on land long ago.
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When the Incas were conquered by the Spanish about four hundred years ago, some of the Incas left Cuzco and went to Machu Picchu in the heart of Peru.
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You can't be hungry. You had a snack a few minutes ago.
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That man died of lung cancer a week ago.
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The bank was held up a week ago.
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That hotel was established about 50 years ago.
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I remember you. We met three years ago.
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Didn't you know that he passed away about two years ago?
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What you have said reminds me of a strange experience I had a few years ago.
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