English Sentences Focusing on Words and Their Word Families
The Word "Ago" in Example Sentences
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241791	Now ten dollars buys less than five dollars did three years ago.	CM
310196	She left home five years ago, and has never been heard of since.	CM
3150601	Tom bought that car for three thousand dollars three months ago.	CK
892402	Even though the accident was six months ago, my neck still hurts.	Scott
1847829	I ate some Greek food at a nearby restaurant just a few days ago.	CK
73385	Kyowa Bank and Saitama Bank merged into Asahi Bank ten years ago.	CM
1126406	Long ago, the Greeks would frequently hold great athletic events.	nadsat
45556	The village is now very different from what it was ten years ago.	CK
250605	As far as I can remember, it was three years ago that we last met.	CK
282749	Six months ago I had an operation for the cataract in my right eye.	CK
3171910	I thought you might want to know that Tom arrived a few minutes ago.	CK
277115	The earth came into existence about five thousand million years ago.	CK
72637	I came to Tokyo three years ago and have been living here ever since.	blay_paul
3168582	That might have been true a long time ago, but it's not true anymore.	CK
3003454	Tom and Mary reminisced about the night they met all those years ago.	patgfisher
2372647	When will you give me back the money you borrowed from me a year ago?	Piteris
3148450	I came to Boston three years ago and I've been living here ever since.	CK
2454248	I studied French a long time ago, but now all I remember is "bonjour."	CK
267000	It was just 6 years ago that I visited New Zealand for the first time.	CK
3023963	Tom and his lawyer left the courtroom together just a few minutes ago.	CK
1473035	I haven't seen any of my old classmates since I graduated 15 years ago.	CK
1318633	A long time ago when I was young, I used to write in my diary every day.	CK
1026996	Tom bought a camera just a couple of days ago, but he's already lost it.	CK
1893611	We're talking about what to do about what happened a couple of days ago.	CK
57926	This area was first settled by the Dutch more than two hundred years ago.	CK
2742281	Two years ago Tom and Mary split up but recently they got together again.	JimBreen
954114	It's very unlikely that he is actually the same man you met ten years ago.	CK
1026890	Tom came to Japan three years ago and has been living here ever since then.	CK
2318250	I don't know if you remember me, but we met a couple of years ago in Boston.	CK
271911	It was almost a decade ago, on May 8th, 1980, that Mount St. Helens erupted.	CM
58492	This novel describes the life of the Japanese as it was a hundred years ago.	CK
53880	Shakespeare, whose plays are world-famous, lived some four hundred years ago.	CM
29678	Rick and Carol broke up two months ago, but he's still carrying a torch for her.	CK
47788	The author is seventy, but he's no less productive than he was twenty years ago.	CK
847229	A few years ago, in San Francisco, a young woman came to us for vocational advice.	Source_Benedict_1921
2318368	I don't know when the meeting started, but it started at least thirty minutes ago.	CK
271066	A few years ago it would have been inconceivable for Japan to send troops overseas.	CK
473877	If you want to hear a scary story, I'll tell you about a dream I had a few weeks ago.	blay_paul
275786	A long time ago, most people lived in groups that moved around as the seasons changed.	CK
3000819	Tom and Mary got married three years ago, but only stayed married for about three months.	CK
3024363	I arrived in Boston three days ago, but the rest of the family won't get here until tomorrow.	CK
3232196	Tom and Mary haven't had a decent night's sleep since the birth of their baby six months ago.	patgfisher
60200	When I visited my hometown this summer, I found the city different from what it had been ten years ago.	CK
3016785	The Himalayas were formed by the collision of the tectonic plates of India and Eurasia about 50 million years ago.	patgfisher
847264	Not long ago we heard a father say in the presence of his large family, "I don't want any of my boys to be lawyers."	Source_Benedict_1921
1403179	Latin Americans know very little about the history of the indigenous peoples who used to live here several centuries ago.	Eldad
2943880	Generally speaking, teenagers of today have less respect for their elders and for authority, than was the case fifty years ago.	patgfisher
30538	Oh, sure, I studied English in my school days. But it wasn't until two or three years ago that I really started taking it seriously.	CK