The phrase "ages before that" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a time period that occurred a long time ago, often in a casual or informal context.
Example: "I remember visiting that place ages before that incident happened."
Alternatives: "long before that" or "many years prior to that".
Salon, 18 Market Row, Coldharbour Lane, SW9 8LD, 020 7501 9152, salonbrixton.co.uk 13 The Plough Inn Longparish, Hampshire Chosen by Emily Watkins, The Kingham Plough, Kingham, Oxfordshire I met James Durrant, the chef-owner of the Plough Inn, when we were both doing The Great British Menu last year, but I'd been meaning to go to his restaurant for ages before that.
Not to worry, he told me, the shortage is so bad that it would take ages before that ever happened.
This was long before she officially came out and ages before that Macaulay-Culkin-in-Party-Monster haircut.
Or, worse still, there was an age before that where if you missed being at an event live, you'd only ever get to hear about it from someone else when they felt like telling you it happened.
The franchise feels like it belongs to the age before that says Quirk, and part of what makes it so charming is "the innocent, uncomplicated quality that it has". Perhaps in these times of global instability these qualities will provide comfort, with parents able to bond with their sons and daughters over "the love of some old favourites," he adds.
He was the relic of the last truly Iranian age, before that country was forced open to the world in the 1890s.
If Ruddiman's hypothesis is right, then combined with the new research, it would suggest that burgeoning human civilization basically headed off an ice age before that ice age could complicate matters for human civilization, making its establishment and growth considerably more difficult, especially in some key northern hemisphere regions.
Bushman said they chose that age range because the first signs of narcissistic tendencies begin to emerge around age 8. "Before that every kid is a narcissist," he said.
Since I am, as we discussed before, that age.
"And compared with six or seven years before that, the age group has become much younger," he said.
When children are at that very vulnerable age before five, that's when anything that's going to be negative in their later life starts to formulate.
