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Example sentences for "two ago"

  • A lady of rank was placed next the Prince a year or two ago.

  • I had a good piece of absurdity in my head a night or two ago.

  • But some cause they have; for the chaplin, with whom but a week or two ago we were here mighty high disputing, is since fallen into a fever and dead, being gone hence to a friend's a good way off.

  • My Lord Chief-Justice Hide did die suddenly this week, a day or two ago, of an apoplexy.

  • A year or two ago he had heard that she had taken the good-will of a school at Ashcombe; a small town close to another property of Lord Cumnor's, in the same county.

  • I don't think it is likely she will miss you as much as she would have done a month or two ago.

  • I believe that there was an intermarriage between the Brownings and the Hamleys, a generation or two ago.

  • I had a talk with him at Coutts's a week or two ago, when he said he was seventy-five, and very weak.

  • The man without legs is still in the Strada Nuova; but the beggars in general are all cleared off, and our old one-arm'd Belisario made a sudden evaporation a year or two ago.

  • I met Mr. Pain a day or two ago," said George.

  • It was next to impossible to fancy, or believe, that she could have been outside a minute or two ago, racing in and out of the trees, as if dodging some one, perhaps himself.

  • An hour or two ago I do not know but I might have availed myself of it: as it is, it is too late.

  • The women of the back country usually go bareheaded around home and often barefooted, too, as did the daughters of Highland chiefs a century or two ago, and for the same reason: simply that they feel better so.

  • Until a century or two ago, throughout Christendom, the secret murder of enemies was committed unblushingly by nobles and kings and prelates, often with a pious "Thus sayeth the Lord!

  • Again, I had a passion for early American history; and, in Far Appalachia, it seemed that I might realize the past in the present, seeing with my own eyes what life must have been to my pioneer ancestors of a century or two ago.

  • About an hour or two ago it would 'a' been a little different, but now it made me feel bad and disappointed.

  • Oh, yes; a month or two ago, when Peter was first took; because Peter said then that he sorter felt like he warn't going to get well this time.

  • She showed me a bar of lead twisted up into a knot, and said she was a good shot with it generly, but she'd wrenched her arm a day or two ago, and didn't know whether she could throw true now.

  • I run across him in the woods about an hour or two ago, and he said if I hollered he'd cut my livers out--and told me to lay down and stay where I was; and I done it.

  • As you know, they restarted working a year or two ago, and they're doing well now.

  • But Despard had another and stronger motive for his generosity in paying off the mortgage on the farm and handing the estate back to the man who had, only a month or two ago, been a stranger to him.

  • Yes, he admitted that she still fascinated him as she had done a year or two ago.

  • A week or two ago when he had been really broke, it scarcely troubled him.

  • About an hour or two ago it would a been a little different, but now it made me feel bad and disappointed, The king rips out and says: "What!

  • Certainly not; still, don't you remember what happened a night or two ago, dear, through a certain child hearing something and repeating it?

  • A generation or two ago, the word rheumatism included a host of disparate painful affections, and was even more sadly abused than now, though its abuse has not ceased.

  • A generation or two ago it was the custom to attempt to explain all the processes in the body by chemical and physical principles.

  • The unfavorable state of mind towards fresh air and especially night air in these patients was cultivated by the profession up to a generation or two ago, but is quite unjustified by our present knowledge.

  • I cut one a day or two ago, which was a monster.

  • A week or two ago a small portion of the hayfield was cut.

  • They killed two a night or two ago, and seven last night, five of them belonging to Martha Green.

  • A day or two ago I said to Robert Lavarello, a boy of ten who is supposed to be somewhat of a cook, "Could you make a loaf of bread?

  • Why, only a week or two ago, by the simplest ruse imaginable, I obtained some valuable information down in Cornwall.

  • Has Admiral Tresize mentioned a letter which he received from Vienna a day or two ago?

  • A week or two ago hundreds of fellows were taken on without any real examination at all.

  • He had a good deal of wheat to deliver by and bye, and, for prices had fallen steadily until a week or two ago, he could still secure a very desirable margin if he bought in against his sales now.

  • I was talking to a Winnipeg doctor who'd a notion of coming out a day or two ago.

  • I met him at the settlement a day or two ago.

  • Allen wrote some friends of his in Winnipeg to send me anybody out a week or two ago.

  • I had rather a pleasant walk to a distant meadow a day or two ago, and we found white and purple grapes in great abundance, ripe, and gushing with rich, pure juice when the hand pressed the clusters.

  • A week or two ago (September 27 and 28) I went on a pedestrian excursion with Mr. Emerson, and was gone two days and one night, it being the first and only night that I have spent away from home.

  • The storms, meanwhile, have tossed up the shingle and paving-stones at each end of the valley, so as to form a barrier against the passage of any but such mighty waves as that which thundered through a year or two ago.

  • Riddell, in his speech a week or two ago, had hit the right nail on the head, and now Bloomfield had driven it home.

  • Game, quite apart from his state of mind with regard to the accident, had not forgotten his repulse at the hands of the new captain a week or two ago, nor had Bloomfield quite got over the indirect snub he had received on the same occasion.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    kindly tone; looked across; main force; moment ago; rather fine; should need; two companies; two days after the; two eggs; two hundred and fifty; two hundred and fifty thousand dollars; two hundred thousand dollars; two hundred thousand francs; two hundred thousand pounds; two hundred years ago; two inches; two miles; two other; two pieces; two pounds; two sockets under one; two teaspoonfuls baking powder; two thousand seven hundred; two volumes; two years; understand anything