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Discover LudwigThe phrase "ago gave" is not correct and usable in written English.
It appears to be a combination of two separate concepts that do not work together grammatically.
Example: "He gave the presentation a week ago."
Alternatives: "previously gave" or "gave earlier".
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Martin himself long ago gave up chess.
Doctors long ago gave him a diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia.
But she long ago gave up the sport herself.
Publishers and foundations, like many once hopeful readers, long ago gave it up.
I long ago gave up on that novelists' cliche of checking my rankings on Amazon.
Frederick W. Peters, president of Warburg Realty, long ago gave up the idea of moving.
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The great economist Schumpeter some seven or eight decades ago gave capitalism its honorable name: DESTRUCTION.
The Mexican crisis two years ago gave the Clinton Administration similar confidence in quick government action.
Mao Tse‐tung, four years ago, gave her a gala 80th birthday party.
Then, a mishap after a Thanksgiving dinner four years ago gave him an idea.
The success of The One Show when it launched three years ago gave GMTV's producers a real shock.
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