The Case brought into talk again an old Miller Case of Friedrich's, which had been famous above thirty years ago, when Sans-Souci was getting built.
This state of things did not exist two hundred years ago; and when the Crusades began the reverse was the case.
Nothing in modern Europe, where such activity now prevails, can compare with what the Eastern and Southern races accomplished thousands of years ago.
He died a couple of years ago, and gave me the pipe I always use now--a silver one, with queer beasts crawling up and down the receiver-bottle below the cup.
I can recollect a time, seems hundreds and hundreds of years ago, that I was getting my three hundred a month, and pickings, when I was working on a big timber contract in Calcutta.
Surely you ought to have left a littleness like that behind you, years ago.
The chief ice-age was some hundreds of thousands of years ago, that is all we can say with any confidence.
From the very start of living evolution certain forms dropped out of the onward march, and have remained, to our great instruction, what their ancestors were millions of years ago.
I set (or sat) type alongside of his father, in Hannibal, more than 50 years ago, when none but the pure in heart were in that business.
I first saw her near 37 years ago, & now I have looked upon her face for the last time.
Mrs. Thayer and I were shipmates in a wild excursion perilously near 40 years ago.
There was the Marquis of Worcester's steam-engine 250 years ago: a Consensus made fun of it.
Let me tell you about another trip on the same Southwestern that happened about 14 years ago.
Years ago, my home town, Russellville, Indiana, had a home talent company.
One of the English prisoners had heard me lecture in London 23 years ago.
I hope you will never get the like of the load saddled onto you that was saddled onto me 3 years ago.
Dice, however, are mentioned by Aristophanes in his comedies, and so it seems that the invention must be placed between the times of the two poets, that is, about 2300 years ago.
Years ago, after you and your mother had gone to England, I went on a big game shooting expedition into the interior.
But this proved nothing, except that some ancient, perhaps thousands of years ago, had been thrown, or had fallen, into the well.
Here was no negro-blood, but rather that of some ancient people such as Egyptians or Phoenicians: men whose forefathers had been wise and civilized thousands of years ago, and perchance had stood in the courts of Pharaoh or of Solomon.
No one knows who built them now; probably it was people who lived thousands of years ago.
That one evening at any rate he had longed for her, eleven: years ago, when she was in her prime.
She had fallen in love with it years ago, and on the wall of her room it had been ever since.
He had joined this Liberal institution five years ago, having made sure that its members were now nearly all sound Conservatives in heart and pocket, if not in principle.
From the ground to the top of the unfinished towers is one mass of rich stone-work, the creation of genius that hundreds of years ago knew no other way to write its poems than with the chisel.
Years ago, people used to saunter over the Atlantic, and spend weeks in filling journals with their monotonous emotions.
She had lived twenty-five years at Geneva, where people, years ago, coming over the dusty and hot roads of France, used to faint away when they first caught sight of the Alps.
Every one wears the straight, high-crowned silk hat that went out with us years ago, and the cut of clothing of even the most buckish young fellows is behind the times.
I have spent three delightful days in Hannibal, loitering around all day long, examining the old localities and talking with the grey-heads who were boys and girls with me 30 or 40 years ago.
I read passages from my play, and a full synopsis, to Boucicault, who was re-writing a play, which he wrote and laid aside 3 or 4 years ago.
As Lady Marget died about two hundred years ago, I don't care a pin what she would say, especially as she looks like a very narrow-minded, haughty woman.
Years ago, when I was a young man, Mr President, I went to a dance one night at the village of Migleyville.
Had a differ'nt way o' sparkin' years ago,' said Uncle Eb.
It was "thousands of years ago" (all Indian legends begin in extremely remote times) that a handsome boy chief journeyed in his canoe to the upper coast for the shy little northern girl whom he brought home as his wife.
Many thousands of years ago," he began, "there were no twin peaks like sentinels guarding the outposts of this sunset coast.
But it was many thousands of years ago that a great Tyee had two daughters that grew to womanhood at the same springtime, when the first great run of salmon thronged the rivers, and the ollallie bushes were heavy with blossoms.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "years ago" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
