Sentence examples for ago common from inspiring English sources

Just 30 years ago, common ravens didn't commonly breed in the region.

Eryops was a creature from the Permian period, about 290 million years ago, common in Texas red-beds deposits, and in the early decades of the twentieth century was one of the few early tetrapods known from good skeletal remains (Fig. 4).

But the noun's days are numbered, all the same.Not so long ago, common-noun domain names—from Bike.com to Hardware.com were all the rage.

It long ago became common here to speak of "getting PACSed" (se pacser, in French).

Decades ago, the common pills were barbiturates, which were addictive and led to many deaths from accidental or deliberate overdoses.

Biologists can use this so-called molecular clock to estimate how long ago their common ancestor lived.

Not long ago, the common wisdom held that Amazon would remake the book business in its own image.

Just a few years ago the common wisdom was that to become a huge hit, a tent-pole game had to be released in the fall.

Long ago a common refuge for slaves who escaped from the colonial sugar plantations, it was named a Unesco World Heritage Site in 2008.

The O'Brien and Salop model predicts that most publicly-listed banks should care less about maximizing their profits today than they did 20 years ago when common ownership was less prevalent.

"Some weeks ago the common wisdom was that going after Saddam would undermine our position in the Muslim world," said Richard Perle, of the American Enterprise Institute, who is an adviser to the Pentagon and a vocal advocate of action against Mr. Hussein.