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UK
/ɐɡˈəʊ/
]
[ US /əˈɡoʊ/ ]
[ US /əˈɡoʊ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
gone by; or in the past
`agone' is an archaic word for `ago'
two years ago
ADVERB
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in the past
long ago
long ago
sixty years ago my grandfather came to the U.S.
How To Use ago In A Sentence
- Their dried dung is found everywhere, and is in many places the only fuel afforded by the plains; their skulls, which last longer than any other part of the animal, are among the most familiar of objects to the plainsman; their bones are in many districts so plentiful that it has become a regular industry, followed by hundreds of men (christened "bone hunters" by the frontiersmen), to go out with wagons and collect them in great numbers for the sake of the phosphates they yield; and Bad Lands, plateaus, and prairies alike, are cut up in all directions by the deep ruts which were formerly buffalo trails. VIII. The Lordly Buffalo
- The question, which has been eating at Matthews for several years, is gnawing on him a couple of hours later as he decompresses at a party at Spago in Beverly Hills.
- Moreover some parts of gain will devolute to Italian Red Cross seriously employed in the disastrous earthquake land that hit the middle lands of Italia few weeks ago. MacMegasite
- A few years ago she was the victim of a con man.
- The mighty Dragon sneers at the prudent and penny-pinching.
- For instance, a few weeks ago in my sports statistics class, I envisioned a type of graph that’s a combination boxplot and lineplot — instead of turning towards Excel, I coded a Mathematica module to create this type of graph and then automate the creation of many of these. Wolfram Blog : Get Your Game On for Mathematics Awareness Month!
- A few years ago it was suggested that auroral phenomena could exist on Mars too.
- I have a patient who had major abdominal surgery a few years ago for a fulminant illness.
- A couple of weeks ago, while glassing four female Meneliks bushbuck two hundred yards away feeding in a tiny clearing during a pouring rain, a nice male stepped into view. Very Little Drops Dead
- That was from when she played the school computer nerd a couple of years ago.