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The phrase "ages before" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to indicate a long time ago or in the distant past.
Example: "I remember that movie; it came out ages before I was born."
Alternatives: "long ago" or "many years ago".
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Ages before, I had bought an outfit in a charity shop – a knitted grey dress with a scoop neck.
It was like the dark ages before".
It will be ages before another day like this.
"It took me ages before I heard Marillion.
A language, like a person, usually ages before it dies.
Devastatingly, Anne ages before our eyes, hallucinating, wishing to die.
But that was the dark ages, before phone cards.
This was not the dark ages before cell phones, but of course I didn't carry one.
Ruiz-Geli is not interested in returning to the dark ages before Modernism.
We knew each other socially for ages before he saw anything I did.
Without this, the stem ages before the flower and quickly collapses.
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