The phrase "ago at the start" is not correct and does not make sense in written English.
It seems to be an attempt to refer to a time in the past, but the construction is awkward and unclear.
Example: "It was a long time ago at the start of my career that I learned this lesson."
Alternatives: "in the beginning" or "at the outset."
The last of the great ice sheets retreated some ten thousand years ago, at the start of the Holocene.
Thirty years ago, at the start of Mubarak's rule, many women in Cairo went bareheaded and wore knee-length skirts and open-necked blouses.
Fifty-three million yeago ato, athehe start of the Eocene, the planet was very warm, and tropical palms grew at the latitude of London.
A dozen years ago, at the start of the new millennium, Malawi's extreme suffering was pretty much ignored by the world.
Angus Ross, a bespoke furniture-maker based in Aberfeldy, Perthshire, began his business 18 years ago at the start of the last recession.
People are fooled in the same way and by the same things that they were fooled with 500 years ago, at the start of the printed literature.
The intensity of the Cairo clashes was some of the worst since the revolution that felled Mr. Mubarak nearly six months ago, and came at the start of monthly Muslim observance more associated with forgiveness and compassion than mayhem and retribution.
"It should have happened years ago," Trump said at the start of a Cabinet meeting, calling North Korea "a murderous regime". Nov. 20, 2017, 7 00 a.m.
Officials were alarmed by images that circulated on weibo of triumphant residents rallying in the centre of their village, like students in Tiananmen Square 22 years ago (see the picture at the start of this piece).
Nearly fifty years ago, when Al Pacino was at the start of his career, Marlon Brando gave him two pieces of advice: don't go to court and don't move to Los Angeles.
Despite the rules being publicly available online since the 2018 prize was opened months ago, it was only at the start of this week – after the entry window had closed – that most people, including the prize's key judges, noticed these changes.
