Years Ago in a sentence

She said the alders simply approved a “status quo amount” this year, after giving the schools extra city funds for several years, through a 13 percent increase two years ago, a 5 percent increase three years ago and a 9 percent increase four years ago.

Timeline confusion abounds, as the story jumps hyperactively between the present and various characters’ pasts: 48 hours ago, six months ago, 17 years ago, half a century ago.

And your friends that DID buy a house laugh themselves to the bank when they go to sell the house they bought 3 years ago, 5 years ago, or 7 years ago.

At least about one million years ago the mastering of fire by about a quarter of a millennium ago the appearance of and about 8,000 years ago the stabilization of the interglacial Holocene, saw the Neolithic and urban civilization.

You won a game last week, you won a game five weeks ago, a year ago, 10 years ago, who cares?

After speaking for three years ‘as friends’ the couple became official two years ago in 2021 – but it was only this February that Demi flew out to meet Bayram in Turkey for the first time since meeting him five years ago.

Many years ago when I was young we were told that petrol was going to run out in the next ten years and that was at least 40 years ago.

Clearly, investors deeply underestimated Big Tech ten years ago, but did things change five years ago?

How is it that there are words that we used maybe 50 years ago, 100 years ago, and they have mutated in terms of meaning.

In relation to community housing, the target set over a decade ago in an MOU between the ACT government and CHC Community Housing, which the ACT government unilaterally abandoned some years ago, would have been 600 over five years.

Invented almost 200 years ago, flossing has never caught on in quite the same way as a twice-daily brush – and a few years ago, a decent-sized study put the dental profession on the defensive by claiming that it might not actually be all that worthwhile.

I saw my dad, who could no longer recognise me or who I was, who no longer knew the difference between 11 years ago, when I was last home, or two years ago, and yesterday.

I think if you go back, oh gosh, like probably even five years ago, certainly 10 years ago, our engines per megawatt generated in the province were probably more than double what they are today.

It’s not something that I thought I would be doing, I think, if you asked me that question five years ago, 10 years ago.

It was around 10,000 years ago that native peoples of Mexico first domesticated corn and around 500 years ago that it was first transported away from the Americas.

Rev. Canisius Tah, the St. Charles senior pastor, said he heard about Bambinelli Sunday in seminary years ago but never saw it in action until he started working at the church six years ago.

The club who won the title seven years ago and two years ago is no more.

The heated speculation about it replacing the United States as the premier global power was no more plausible than the similar hype about Japan thirty years ago, or Russia seventy years ago.

The market was very low two or three years ago, but equally so was the workload two or three years ago.

The performance of “D‘un matin de printemps” is dedicated to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which was signed 75 years ago and strengthened 30 years ago at the Vienna World Conference on Human Rights.