Sentence examples for ago focused on from inspiring English sources

At a round-table discussion a few years ago, focused on the high failure rate for Alzheimer's drugs, Dr. Berry was amazed to hear one drug company researcher admit to such thinking out loud.

That is why peace studies has, since the last Encyclopedia of Peace 25 years ago, focused on positive action – for example mediation, reconciliation and nonviolent civil resistance to dictatorship and injustice.

The Reisleys' quest for a home 57 years ago focused on finding a New York City suburb that would best suit their lifestyle, offer a high-performing public school system and be within their financial reach.

But since a business school's reputation rests largely on its full-time, daytime program for a master's degree in business administration, Baruch five years ago focused on developing such a program, building it around a small honors program for students who were given free tuition and laptop computers.

Three studies from Papua New Guinea, published more than 15 years ago, focused on grass skirt burns [4], self-inflicted burns among women using kerosene [5], and a 7 year retrospective review of admissions to Port Moresby General Hospital [6].

For example, the only major US study to date that investigated the relation between aircraft noise and mortality 29 was conducted more than 30 years ago, focused on a single airport, and was critiqued for inadequately controlling for age/sex/race, and other analytical flaws.

Operation Midland investigated claims that boys were sexually abused by a number of public figures more than 30 years ago, focusing on allegations made by a man known as "Nick", and two other complainants who came forward later.

"Did going out and looking for talent as a scout bring him joy and pleasure?" Ogilvie, 80, wrote a study entitled "The unidimensional human being" nearly 25 years ago, focusing on former athletes unable to cope with retirement.

Octopart /> Vertical search engine Octopart, which launched not too long ago, focuses on putting an end the inadequate search engines used by electronics parts manufacturers.

House Account, a mobile shopping app that launched a year and a half ago, focuses on boutiques instead of brands to help them compete in the e-commerce space.

Four years ago, he also focused on social issues to try to sway evangelicals.