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Sentence Examples This monticule was known as the site where the splendid temple had been built centuries ago. About 450 million years ago, a meteor struck north-central Oklahoma, creating an impact crater - an astrobleme - more than eight miles wide. A few years ago, the town enjoyed a nice boomlet, but since then times have been tough. It is important to recall that not very long ago cell phones did not exist. I wanted an ancient shark tooth, a chomper that last saw use by a predator perhaps 25 million years ago. He started his homework two hours ago and he still isn't finished. Fivescore years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. Only a couple of days ago I was compelled to take him off a case because his handling of it was so footling. It's not so long ago that Argentina looked to be in complete control of this match. Now Paraguay are forcing their backs to the wall. More than a million wells have been fracced in the United States since the first frac job six decades ago. Reggie woke her from a frightless slumber years ago with a tarantula in a shoebox, disappointed when it didn't make her scream. Mrs. Jackson still kept doggie biscuits in her pockets, even though her furbaby had died two months ago. Forty years ago the crumpled and complex Mobile Belt of Newfoundland would have been considered a typical result of a deformed geosyncline. I should have quit this job long ago, but I guess I'm just a glutton for punishment. The small Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan introduced a policy of Gross National Happiness more than twenty years ago. Mr. Guirl is a native of Indiana, and his partner, Mr. H. A. Daggett, who was born in Maine, joined him at Clay City about six years ago. I'd a Hand Solo this afternoon and another one, like, fifteen minutes ago and now I'm totally wankrupt. That was many years ago, twenty years or more, and during this time Okonkwo's fame had grown like a bush-fire in the harmattan. Settlement by anatomically modern humans of what was to become the United Kingdom occurred in waves beginning by about 30,000 years ago. A rainbow is a heartsome thing, for it reminds us of a promise made long ago, and faithfully kept. Show More Sentences As the ice retreated 10,000 years ago the lake reconnected to the sea, becoming brackish and then fully saline once again. During the Late Cretaceous, about 85 million years ago, all of modern mainland Europe except for Scandinavia was a scattering of islands. Analysis indicated that it was a Plateosaurus from 199 to 216 million years ago. The island probably became separated from the mainland about 125,000 years ago, during the Ipswichian interglacial. About 50,000 years ago, there was a marked increase in the diversity of artifacts. Between 45,000 and 43,000 years ago, this new tool technology spread with human migration to Europe. He argues that almost everywhere, whether Asia, Africa or Europe, before 50,000 years ago all the stone tools are much alike and unsophisticated. The town's most famous bridge, though, is the Transporter Bridge, built over 100 years ago. After all, if these measures could've succeeded, they would've been implemented five years ago when the world economy hadn't yet hit the skids. Any archaeological trace of them, however, either lies under the city or was disturbed long ago. During the last glacial period, and up until about 9000 years ago, most of Ireland was covered with ice, most of the time. A similar situation unfolded two decades ago in Sausalito, Calif., when houseboaters were inundated with toadfish calls. The Last Glacial Maximum, the maximum extent of glaciation within the last glacial period, was approximately 22,000 years ago. Around 11,700 years ago marked the beginning of the Holocene geological epoch, which includes the Holocene glacial retreat. The end of the last glacial period was about 11,700 years ago, while the end of the last ice age has not yet come. The Pinedale lasted from approximately 30,000 to 10,000 years ago and was at its greatest extent between 23,500 and 21,000 years ago. It began about 30,000 years ago, reached its greatest advance 21,000 years ago, and ended about 10,000 years ago. These mammoths lived in northern Africa and disappeared about 3 or 4 million years ago. The earliest known proboscideans, the clade that contains the elephants, existed about 55 million years ago around the Tethys Sea area. The family Elephantidae is known to have existed six million years ago in Africa, and includes the living elephants and the mammoths. Show More Sentences Recent research of sediments in Alaska indicates mammoths survived on the American mainland until 10,000 years ago. Their predecessor, the steppe bison appeared in the North American fossil record around 190,000 years ago. The genetic information also indicated that a second, Pleistocene migration of bison over the land bridge occurred 21,000 to 45,000 years ago. About 40,000 years ago, anatomically modern humans entered the Iberian Peninsula from Southern France. In the Old World, humans learned to smelt metals in prehistoric times, more than 8000 years ago. As we have seen, even a hundred years ago icestorms could have a devastating effect on electric service in a major metropolitan area. There are many lakes and moraines, legacies of the last glacial period, which ended about ten millennia ago. However, until the Destruction of the Second Temple, about two thousand years ago, taking Nazirite vows was a common feature of the religion. The number of international players in the National Basketball Association has increased 10 percent from one year ago, the league said on Monday. Danny had christened himself the Italian Stallion years ago in reference to his family's Italian heritage and the name had stuck. She was certain she was about to kick up dust about her mother just as Setsuka had done about Mitsu's death eighteen years ago. From 14,000 to 10,000 years ago, as the ice melted, sea levels rose separating Ireland from Great Britain and also creating the Isle of Man. The Indian subcontinent drifted northeastwards, colliding with the Eurasian plate nearly 55 million years ago, towards the end of Paleocene. The Gulf of Mexico did not exist 250 million years ago when there was but one supercontinent, Pangea. The oldest rocks date back to the early Tertiary Era, some 60 million years ago. The Ordovician spanned from approximately 488 million years to approximately 443 million years ago. The Permian spanned from 299 to 252 million years ago and was the last period of the Paleozoic Era. The bones in their fins eventually evolved into legs and they became the first tetrapods, 390 million years ago, and began to develop lungs. At the end of the last glaciation, about 10,000 years ago, the area's ecosystem was characterised by a largely treeless tundra. Woodland was far more extensive on the North Downs prior to human clearance 4000 to 5000 years ago. Show More Sentences This took place between about 478,000 to 424,000 years ago, and was responsible for the diversion of the River Thames onto its present course. During the most recent Devensian glaciation, which ended a mere 10,000 years ago, the icesheet reached south to Wolverhampton and Cardiff. She had long ago accepted his disapproval, but she had perfect trust in him and his leechcraft as she had had at Hugh's bedside in Bordeaux. And since this happened years ago, I'll go ahead and fill you in that nothing else lesbiany happened on the show. One hundred years ago, to have lit this theatre as brilliantly as it is now lighted would have cost, I suppose, fifty pounds. He probably got his death, as he liked to have done two years ago, by viewing the troops for the expedition from the wall of Kensington Garden. When I was an apprentice many years ago, the 125 used to come through Markinch station in Fife at 1.27pm every weekday. Astronomers believe the Earth began to accrete more than 4.6 billion years ago. No flaming flower relieved its black achromatism although that tree had been known long ago to burst open with a three-hour glory. Unprotected matter, however adamant, would have been ground to dust ages ago. He committed acts which put him afoul of Empire law, details classified, twenty-six years ago. Many thousands of years ago, an Africoon was loafing in the dust in front of his hut when he felt the need for a snack. Even three years ago, the thought of spending two hours, let alone a whole day, without my mobile would have been anathema. Guerin Woodgate Jr., 29, says he never thought much about his circumcision until he stumbled upon some anti-circ Web sites about ten years ago. Like other critics, he has compared the antisalt campaign to the campaign against fat that began several decades ago. Nothing easier. I received not long ago a map from my friend, Augustus Petermann, at Leipzig. Nothing could be more apropos. He said increased baitfish numbers after an upwelling of nutrient-rich water three years ago had contributed to the increase in shark numbers. At a stroke the bhangis will raise scavenging to a fine art and give it the status it should have had long ago. The tax officials seized documents that Tony Hachem said related to a company for which he'd done unpaid bookwork about five years ago. A century ago you could expect to live 40 years.... Anything beyond that was borrowed time. Show More Sentences A year ago, amid the London riots, people were entitled to wonder if Mr Cameron had a point about Broken Britain. Thirty years ago this ford was on the track of the bunjaras, and I have seen two thousand pack-bullcoks cross in one night. I remember, about five years ago, I was greatly annoyed by a ghost, while doing a job of fencing in the bush between here and Perth. Two years and one month ago I broke my neck in a car accident. I made it through but just barely. I came real close to cashing in my chips. Many years ago, a Mr. Torbit brought forward a Ceresian scheme for producing a disease-proof potato. This has been known for centuries, but it was only twenty years ago that the site of the biological clock was identified. In one, dated eighteen years ago, he appeared, wearing only sandals and a cincture of vine leaves, between two classical garden statues. My attention was called to this many years ago, very shortly after the introduction of cocain as a local anesthetic. Millions of years ago the mica schists surrounding the old Brandberg West Mine became folded and concertinaed by enormous horizontal pressures. The rest of it is very good and I wish I had had something of the sort available when I started congoing thirty years ago... ulp. Forty years ago one who had known it well described it to me as a crincum-crancum kind of house, full of ins and outs. Two weeks ago, Mr Davies intimated to Mr Brown that he was ready to cross the floor. Father Juliano declared bankruptcy after building only the prototype, but the car was restored a few years ago by a customizer in England. Photosynthesis was established some billion years ago by ancient bacterial precursors of modern cyanobacteria. Not long ago, as eternity flows, most of humanity felt earthbound, sin-bound, limitation-bound, deathbound, fear-bound, and guilt-bound. A deva prasnam conducted in July 1975 revealed that the image had been consecrated by a saint from Tirupati more than one thousand years ago. I haven't checked the oil level of my car's motor since I lost the dipstick three months ago. Richard obtained a divorce from his wife some years ago, but hasn't returned to the dating scene. Just over a decade ago, the bassist Charlie Haden played a drummerless New York nightclub engagement with the pianist Kenny Barron. I can't believe a month ago I was living my life as usual, and now I'm a dudette about to become a pioneer traveling on a wagon train. Show More Sentences This is dumb! We're driving in circles! We should have asked for directions an hour ago! He had walked the wilds of Imokoi before, he had pierced rakshas illusions, seenthrough the mist of demonic dwimmer-craft centuries ago. The blue men of Mica II discriminated against Earthies, considered them inferior since the Micans had conquered the Earthies a hundred years ago. Arcosanti, the ecotopian town in the Arizona desert, was started three decades ago. With this once long lance, now wildly elbowed, fifty years ago did Nathan Swain kill fifteen whales between a sunrise and a sunset. How does it work, though? It's based on the observation made some 200 years ago that electricity can change the shape of flames. He was supercute, with emo bangs over one eye and a hint of guyliner that would've sent my heart aflutter not too long ago. Ten years ago, Frank Buono, a retired employee of the National Park Service, objected to the cross, saying it violated the establishment clause. I submitted my application for student finance months ago, but haven't heard back. I think I've fallen between the cracks. I am a huge Fanilow and had the good fortune of meeting and spending a little time with Barry a few years ago. Like, twenty years ago everyone was fat and happy. The Cold War was over, everyone was at peace, the U.S. was cruising along with a big surplus. Months ago a tunnel was clogged with a fatberg. It took a team of workers a month to move it. In Sims' latest yarn, he claims that, more than two years ago, he was given material from the crashed UFO by someone at a West Coast UFO kookfest. Very broadly, it dates to between 50,000 and 10,000 years ago, roughly coinciding with the appearance of behavioral modernity and before the advent of agriculture. They became prevalent during the Ediacaran, 635 to 542 million years ago. Humans first settled in Eurasia between 60,000 and 125,000 years ago. Already some years ago it was pointed out that the skeleton of the pelvic fin and girdle of Polypterus is much more actinopterygian than crossopterygian in structure. It has been estimated that the tree cover of the Downs was cleared over 3000 years ago, and the present closely grazed turf is the result of continual grazing by sheep. I was in here four times, and went out to try to get on, but couldn't, affor I comed in sixteen years ago, and my old woman was in affor she died. Long years ago, amid the sunny hills Where Arno dashing makes the maddest mirth, A master lived whose melody enthrills, And ever will, the children of the earth. Show More Sentences Out in the front yard, a jumble of iris japonica, Chinese epimedium and carex leaves covers one wall, a plant wall experiment begun five years ago. These tools disappeared from the archeological record at around the same time the Neanderthals themselves disappeared from the fossil record, about 40,000 years ago. These herdings and stabbings and stranglings occurred five hundred years ago, before America felt the withering touch of Europe. Does that exclude them from our concern? A year ago, Baxter International and APP Pharmaceuticals split the domestic market for heparin, an anticlotting drug needed for surgery and dialysis. I think that 20 to 30 years ago nonfundamentalists in America did make a great mistake by typing them, by hillbillying and backwoodsing and holy-rollering them. Osho died nine years ago after establishing his eclectic brand of hippy-dippy irrationalism, sexual therapy and ancient learning across the globe. We read Izaak Walton for his tone, for his perfect attunement to the quiet streams and flowered meadows and bosky hills of the Thames valley long ago. The Valley landscape was more awash with greenery some 11,000 years ago. About 450,000 years ago, in the most extreme Ice Age of the Pleistocene, the Anglian, the furthest southern extent of the ice sheet was at Hornchurch in east London. She was still wearing the crushed and crumpled morning-dress of balzarine that she had put on in her bedroom at the Abuthnots' bungalow in Delhi Cantonment... how long ago? Some years ago I was talking to a ten-year-old boy who had been to the Rodeo. He was a lad whom most casual observers would readily have called tough. It was 'Lingerie Night' at a local fet club a few years ago. Five years ago Joe Sillett picked up a bat which had been given the Black and Decker treatment in his father's garage to remove its woodworm-infested rough edges. There was a time not so long ago when a company poised to go public would invite a reporter inside to memorialize the moments leading up to the blessed event. It was formed 13,000 years ago during the last major ice age by two glaciers, one from the Troutbeck valley and the other from the Fairfield Horseshoe. Its older name was Lang Holme, and 800 years ago it was the centre of the manor of Windermere and later, in effect, of a moiety of the barony of Kendal. Ages Ago was also the beginning of a collaboration with the composer Frederic Clay that would last seven years and produce four works. Here the first settlements were made by the Mexican inwanderers of a century ago, who huddled round the coast-line missions, which strove for the submission. How far have they come since Japan began carrying out affirmative action policies for the buraku four decades ago, mirroring the American civil rights movement? Spiders had woven their vague trapezes between the friable heads of dead peonies in enormous glass jars streaked with tide marks where the water had evaporated long ago. Show More Sentences It was at a rehearsal for Ages Ago that Clay formally introduced Gilbert to his friend, Arthur Sullivan. Approximately 13,000 years ago, the Late Glacial Maximum began. To keep the load within the bearing specification seal diameters are chosen accordingly as, many years ago, on the backface of the impeller in the de Havilland Ghost engine. Judging by the material in Canadian insect collections, the giant lacewing, Polystoechotes punctatus, was a common insect in Ontario 50 years ago. Another drug, clofazimine, used more than a century ago to treat leprosy, may be effective against autoimmune disorders like multiple sclerosis and psoriasis. I took my medication an hour ago, and it hasn't kicked in yet. So it's not surprising that Terry McCabe's theatrically assured, combustibly comic staging is superior to Borealis Theatre's revival two months ago. Only a few years ago Mr. Powers, an American computer, disproved a hypothesis about prime numbers which had held the field for more than 250 years. I suppose what he is worried about is epitomized by a conversation that I had ten years ago with the Executive Vice President of a utility that was going nuclear. He's still kicking himself for not investing three years ago. I taste blood in my mouth while a Japanese gentleman in plastic snowshoes and a colorful Cosby sweater snaps photos of a landscape leveled by forest fires a decade ago. On New Year's Day Mama bakes a cozonac. She hasn't baked one since my birthday in April, ages ago. I follow her into the kitchen to watch her knead and braid the dough. The Tahoe reached its maximum extent perhaps about 70,000 years ago. A year ago, few would have heard of a halal snack pack, but now the new kebab shop favourite has been named one of the words of the year by Macquarie Dictionary. Why had he not killed himself long ago? Why cumbered he the earth? Plants mostly remained aquatic until sometime in the Silurian and Devonian Periods, about 420 million years ago, when they began to transition onto dry land. Boroughs in many cases are descendants of municipal boroughs set up hundreds of years ago, and so have a number of traditions and ceremonial functions. Kirkwell Cave in Lower Allithwaite, Cumbria shows signs of the Federmesser culture of the Paleolithic, and was inhabited some time between 13,400 and 12,800 years ago. Since making its debut two years ago, the program has gained cult status. About twenty-three years ago the town talked about Richepin having deserted hearth and home, wife and child, to devote himself to a Delilah in the person of a famous actress. Show More Sentences I noticed a couple of days ago how quickly the battery depletes. The groups of settlers began building the first known permanent houses on Scottish soil around 9,500 years ago, and the first villages around 6,000 years ago. At the time of the Roman Empire, about two thousand years ago, various tribes, which spoke Celtic dialects of the Insular Celtic group, were inhabiting the islands. A few years ago it was a dirt-poor outpost populated by rural migrants. Geologically, the Indian subcontinent is related to the land mass that rifted from Gondwana and merged with the Eurasian plate nearly 55 million years ago. The steppe bison spread through the northern parts of North America and lived in Eurasia until around 11,000 years ago and North America until 4,000 to 8,000 years ago. It was the most tangible link between the instrumental style we discussed a few pages ago and the truly dubwise occurrences of a year or two later. The North Sea was cut off from the English Channel by a narrow land bridge until that was breached by at least two catastrophic floods between 450,000 and 180,000 years ago. The area now occupied by the City of Sheffield is believed to have been inhabited since at least the late Upper Paleolithic, about 12,800 years ago. Before a few weeks ago I always held England for the greateste land of the whole world after Dutchland, and the Englanders for the best-lighted folk. The Greek word thalassa has been reused by scientists for the huge Panthalassa ocean that surrounded the supercontinent Pangaea hundreds of million years ago. We had his trademark high-pitch vocals on Po' Boy Soul, catchy barndance Years Ago, summery Jamaican sound of Wait For The Sunshine and Bob Marley's Who The Cap Fit. Examples from Classical Literature A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO, while contemplating the dandelions running riot alongside the road in front of my house, I decided it was time to get a weed whacker. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of ago? Words that rhyme with ago What is the adverb for ago? What is the adjective for ago? Translations for ago Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words agnostics agnosticism agnostically agnostic agnosia agnomen AGO agog agoge agogic agogo agog with excitement 3-letter Words Starting With a ag