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Simple sentences
How long ago did the bus leave?
The university was founded by his father twenty years ago.
I had an abortion two years ago.
A few years ago, our room had little furniture in it.
Ten years ago his theory would not have been generally accepted.
I saw her a week ago.
When I moved to the United States four years ago, I had problems adapting to a new language and culture.
I saw him three years ago.
There once was a bridge here a long time ago.
Tom and Mary just met three months ago.
He escaped from prison thirty years ago and has been on the lam ever since.
He died four to six weeks ago.
He died ten years ago.
I called you three hours ago.
If I wanted to scare you, I would tell you what I dreamt about a few weeks ago.
I came to Tokyo three years ago and have been living here ever since.
It happened a long time ago.
Didn't you know that he passed away two years ago?
You should have completed it long ago.
You should have told me a long time ago.
You only started this job an hour ago.
The meeting finished thirty minutes ago.
Our rent is four times as much as it was ten years ago.
I was here about a year ago.
It stopped snowing an hour ago.
Lucy came to see me three days ago.
Don't you know that he passed away two years ago?
You look the way your father did thirty years ago.
Movie subtitles
Your mom was a famous movie star a long time ago. And your brother is one of the top singer in our country. Killer, huh?
Couple days ago, there was a morning special adoption show right?
It cannot be dismissed that this novel idea. is connected to the princess being a student a short while ago.
NIALL FERGUSON: Around 500 years ago, a band of intrepid sailors and soldiers from the petty warring kingdoms of medieval Europe changed the world.
No, 600 years ago, the idea of a civilized West would have seemed absurd.
But no, the Chinese got there 2,000 years ago.
China, 2,000 years ago.
Now, if 30 years ago, you'd predicted that China's would be the second largest economy by 201 1 and the largest by 2030, I think you'd have been dismissed as a fantasist.
Well we only became best friends a few days ago.
Three hours we've been listening to him talk about stupid shit that happened on the other side of the Earth thousands of years ago!
Titan's atmosphere and surface features are similar to Earth's 3.5 billion years ago.
Yet we've only been able to communicate for the past 50 years - a tiny fraction, meaning if another civilisation communicated with us 200 years ago, we would have missed the signal altogether.
Talking about things from so long ago is painful.
My last deployment finished months ago.
A long time ago, a boat with 10 of our Spanish sisters ran aground here.
It was a lifetime ago.
You guys broke up, like, six weeks ago.
The company was founded 50 years ago.
Even his most recent photograph dates back to 30 years ago.
It's based on something that took place many years ago.
We are simply a mutation that has lasted since long ago.
Those people were your comrades until only an hour ago.
Moments ago, I saw the future. I went through time and saw what comes to pass.
Four months ago, she signaled to one of our assets that she had a willingness to talk about a secret weapons program.
I tailed him here four hours ago.
By the Chinese government five years ago.
She disappeared four years ago.
A week ago, I was standing in line, holding a tuna baguette, queuing up for easyJet.
Together with the Officers from the North, I have already received the training 5 months ago and received a high evaluation.
Have the other teams arrived? We have come a bit late, other team members have already completed the adaptation training a month ago.
Her dad passed away 3 years ago.
I-I ONLY MET HIM A COUPLE WEEKS AGO. WELL, HOW DID YOU MEET?
Why would we want to read articles from so many years ago?
You're flying off to Paris with a poet that you met a few hours ago.
Yeah, well, I guess, uh, that all started a couple weeks ago.
I said that exact same thing a week ago.
I think we met a few days ago.
He died a fortnight ago in Hong Kong.
We worked together some time ago.
Eighteen hours ago, the Agency sent an undercover team to extract her from a labor camp in the Yunnan province.
News and current affairs
Yes, gold has had a great run, but so, too, did worldwide housing prices until a couple of years ago.
A few years ago, however, I started paying attention to space again.
The Washington Consensus of free-market reforms for developing countries ended more than two decades ago.
When the idea was first floated some 10 years ago, expansion into the Baltics was taken seriously by few people.
Only a few years ago EU and NATO enlargement were regarded as wild dreams.
Nearly one billion people are trapped in chronic hunger - perhaps 100 million more than two years ago.
After all, it hesitated little a few years ago to put a current member state, Austria, on notice that it was watching out for the welfare of that country's democracy.
Obama was praised extravagantly a year ago; 12 months on, the criticism is over the top, too.
But we can take it a step further back: people's income is lower and their jobs are insecure because they were not spending a short time ago - and so on, backwards in time, in a repeating feedback loop.
And this is why it doesn't matter whether the relevant events happened 60 years ago (as World War II), 90 years (as in the case of the Armenian genocide) or even 600 years (such as the battle of Kosovo in 1389).
To anyone with decent eyesight, it was clear that the rosy budget projections of two years ago were nonsense.
Because 80 years ago, when Wilson, Clemenceau, and Lloyd George redrew the map of Europe, small states were dysfunctional in times of both war and peace.
More than 40 years ago, it was promised that once Turkey lives up to the preconditions for membership, it will be welcome in the EU.
Now we have yet another agreement to do what these same nations said they would do 15 years ago.
When Berlusconi first came to power 17 years ago, he had the support of a majority of women.
Finally, while the Taliban lost power ten years ago, discrimination and violence against women has occurred in Afghan society for centuries.
It was 30 years ago that former Prime Minister Takeo Fukuda, the father of today's prime minister, signed a Peace and Friendship Treaty with China.
But, unlike three decades ago, when the Japanese regarded China as one of their most favored countries, public opinion in both countries nowadays registers more negative feelings than positive ones.
Consider land-locked Ethiopia, which only ten years ago seemed to be an especially bad bet.