The phrase "ago been published" is not correct in written English.
It is a grammatically incorrect construction and does not convey a clear meaning.
Example: "The article has been published a year ago."
Alternatives: "was published" or "has been released."
But, he added, "What kind of intelligence service is it that's interested in information that six months ago was published in The Washington Post?" Over the years, Mr. Sutyagin said the authorities acknowledged privately to him that the case was bogus.
His paper detailing the evidence for life before 3.8 billion years ago was published in Nature in 1996 and has been cited more than 400 times.
A legendary, best-selling French novel, written 60 years ago, has just been published in France for the first time.
The Gospel According to Cane, about a woman whose baby was kidnapped decades ago, has just been published.
A report written 17 years ago has finally been published identifying long-term "extensive" abuse at children's homes in north Wales from the 1970s to the 1990s.
The chemistry manufacturing and controls section of submissions to the FDA was described almost 20 years ago; it has not been published but is followed and complemented by US Pharmacopoeia directives, and recently specific product guidances have been published.
My roommate, Aaron Laden, the real mastermind of the hoax, wrote an essay about it some years ago which has never been published.
A university press recently published a novel by a colleague of mine that, 20 years ago, would have likely been published by one of the big New York houses.
Because there has been little government testing of apartments for air quality -- and some tests conducted months ago have still not been published -- there is no public body of facts, no set of numbers that can bestow a feeling of certainty.
"Ten years ago, 'Brothers' could not have been published," he said.
