Sentence examples for ago advancing from inspiring English sources

More than 20,000 troops and Iranian-backed Shia Muslim militias known as Hashid Shaabi, supported by local Sunni Muslim tribes, launched the offensive for Tikrit 10 days ago, advancing from the east and along the east bank of the Tigris.

Not so long ago, advanced female skiers dismissed women's clinics as irrelevant.

Other glaciers, such as those forming in the Sentinel Range perhaps as early as 50 million years ago, advanced down valleys to calve into the sea in West Antarctica.

Mine has long ago advanced to a point where I can no longer read books or other printed material, even in very large type.

Then, a few years ago, advances in computer rendering gave them a simple and cheap way to hire a virtual staging company to render those items into a photograph of an empty room.

Four years ago, she advanced to the final, where she lost to Svetlana Kuznetsova.

"Three days ago we advanced and took all these positions, and then we went to rest yesterday night and this morning they attacked and took the ridge," shouted their commander, a young man with one leg shorter than the other.

A month ago, Israel advanced plans for 900 more units in a fourth Jewish area of Jerusalem on land captured in 1967, a move that was criticized by Europe and the United States.

The concept of enhanced external counterpulsation is based on research initially done at Harvard half a century ago and advanced in China during the 1970's after American researchers lost interest.

Technical breakthroughs in labeling and imaging methods starting more than a century ago have advanced knowledge in the field.

An important finding of this study suggests that in all economically poor states, children schooling patterns such as dropout rate, repetition in same class, left school two or more years ago and advanced attendance are very high compared to the children belonging to the better socio-economic states.