Sentence examples for ago in order to from inspiring English sources

The phrase "ago in order to" is not correct and does not make sense in written English.
It seems to be a combination of two separate phrases that do not logically fit together.
Example: "I left the party an hour ago in order to get some rest."
Alternatives: "to" or "so as to".

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He claimed asylum there more than a year ago in order to avoid extradition to Sweden.

A few years ago, in order to hold a hundred records simultaneously, Furman took up pure Guinnessport.

Life Cycle Engineering (LCE) was introduced as a concept more than 24 years ago in order to address emerging concerns about environmental sustainability in engineering.

Legless lizards like this purple-bellied A. grinnelli lost their legs millions of years ago in order to burrow more quickly into loose soil and sand.

He opened the restaurant five years ago in order to sell cod and haddock caught by his Norwegian partners in the Barents Sea.

Dr. and Mrs. Edward H. Ahrens, Jr. founded the arboretum 8 years ago in order to find out why some trees are winter hardy and others are not.

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"Vince Lombardi told me that years and years ago -- in order to win, you have to love each other".

He'd returned to le Tortue six months ago in order to catch a boat to America.

It's thanks to the political crisis that Republicans manufactured two years ago in order to force unnecessary spending cuts.

I signed up for the Telephone Preference Service (TPS years agoo in order to block this sort of thing.

He moved to Migdalim more than a decade ago in order to improve his family's quality of life.

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