The phrase "ago in the case of" is not correct and does not make sense in written English.
It seems to be an attempt to reference a time frame in relation to a specific situation, but the construction is awkward and unclear.
Example: "This issue occurred three years ago in the case of the new policy implementation."
Alternatives: "previously regarding" or "earlier in the context of".
Reconstructing events that happened more than 600 million years ago, in the case of animals, is a great challenge.
His office originally brought a lawsuit about 10 years ago in the case of El Mozote, but it stalled for lack of detailed witness accounts.
(A couple of years ago, in the case of the United States v. Jones, the Court did place limits on the police installing tracking devices on cars; it didn't address the broader issue).
Cameron has now discovered what dawned on many of his fellow Conservative MPs some time ago in the case of the tax credits fiasco: that Osborne's austerity policies are not as popular as they assumed when they were re-elected.
At the heart of the cases is the impact, if any, on federal sentencing guidelines of a ruling that the court issued less than six weeks ago, in the case of Blakely v. Washington, involving state sentencing guidelines.
In what amounts to a diligent compendium of other books and articles, along with a couple of desultory interviews with the principals (conducted decades ago in the case of Mantle, who died in 1995), Barra works hard to construct a cohesive narrative about these two extraordinary players.
Astonishingly, fewer than 200 officers out of a police force that is now 37,500-strong have been disciplined (and usually mildly) since the CCRB was formed four years ago.In the case of Mr Louima, the mayor and Mr Safir have acted more decisively.
That was a long time ago, especially in the case of the L.A. Times, whose editorial-page editors emeriti now include the great acerbic liberal Michael Kinsley.
A potentially valuable application of protoplast technologies recognized over 30 years ago was in the case of the American elm (Ulmus americana L). [ 12].
EuroSCORE was developed more than two decades ago, and in the case of mortality prediction, several authors have already proposed a recalibration [ 33, 34].
The same variant would be expected in two different populations only if both had inherited it from the same founder many generations ago, an unlikely event in the case of two groups as different as those in Britain and Iceland.
