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[ adverb ] in the past
Examples "long ago" "sixty years ago my grandfather came to the U.S." Used in print (Musical America, LXXXI:5...)I myself was one of the skeptics ( 35 years ago ) . (Norman Kent, "The Watercolor Art of Roy M. Mason"...)The artist was_born in Gilbert_Mills , New_York , in 1886 , and until two years ago when he and his wife moved to California , he lived in western New_York , in Batavia . (Walter H. Buchsbaum, "Advances in Medical Electronics"...)Several years ago headlines were made by a small radio_transmitter capsule which could be swallowed by the patient and which would then radio internal pressure data to external receivers . (Sports Age, 24:9...)We were camping a_few weeks ago on Cape_Hatteras_Campground in that land of pirates , seagulls and bluefish on North_Carolina 's famed Outer_Banks . (Bell I. Wiley, "Home Letters of Johnny Reb and Billy...)Private George_Gray_Hunter of Pennsylvania wrote : `` I am well convinced in My own Mind that had it not been for officers this war would have ended long ago '' . |
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