adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a long time ago
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She died a long time ago .
a moment ago
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I saw him outside just a moment ago.
an hour/three hours etc ago
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He left an hour ago.
yonks ago
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We went to Blackpool once, yonks ago .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
light years ago
many moons ago
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He left Derby many moons ago complaining they gagged him.
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Several colour strains have bee bred since the original black and silver variety came out on the market many moons ago.
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When I got my first laser printer many moons ago, my bank manager almost had a heart attack.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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"When did you hurt your back?" "About a fortnight ago ".
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"When did you live in Germany?" "Oh, it was a long time ago ."
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Did you see that program about genetics that was on a little while ago ?
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George went out half an hour ago . Can I have him call you back?
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How long ago did you buy the computer?
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How long ago was that, Dad?
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I had my keys a minute ago , and now I can't find them.
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I met your father once, a long time ago .
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Lucy's aunt died a few months ago .
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Michael left the office 20 minutes ago .
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Michael left the office about half an hour ago .
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My daughter was married just over a year ago .
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Pauline wrote to me once, but that was ages ago .
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We went down to see a show in London not so long ago .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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After all, he was supposed to have been hanged half a century ago .
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Even their twittering seems fairly low-key compared with the excited sounds they made just a few weeks ago .
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That was less than three and a half hours ago , but it might have been years.
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The company a year ago changed its reporting period to a fiscal year that ends March 31 from a calendar year.
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The good ole boys had their day two years ago .
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The gun was pieced together over twenty years ago by Caltech geophysicist Tom Ahrens.
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The only thing we ever get is old, stale news about where they used to be, some time ago .
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Thirty years ago 33 % of university students were female; now there are more women than men.