Sentence examples for ago last week from inspiring English sources

It's different from what I believed yesterday, a few days ago, last week.

His paper arrived on 18 June, 1858 - 150 years ago last week - at Darwin's estate in Downe, in Kent.

These protesters were gathered in France a half-century ago: Last week was the 55th anniversary of the mass demonstration in Paris of the Poujadist movement, a phenomenon that bears a close resemblance to our own Tea Party.

Page 2 Week in Review SO MAYBE CHICKEN LITTLE Wasn't Paranoid One hundred years ago last week, something -- presumably a meteoroid, most experts say -- streaked across the sky in Siberia and exploded with a force of 185 Hiroshima bombs.

JAMES D. WATSON, who helped crack the DNA code half a century ago, last week became the first person handed the full text of his own DNA on a small computer disk.

THE 400 or so students who arrived, 70 years ago last week, at Queens College's brand-new campus in Flushing could have been forgiven for beholding the grounds of their new school with mixed emotions.

Now Mrs. McMahon, too, is buried there, but someone else apparently has taken up the vigil for the anonymous murder victim from 114 years ago: last week a child's pinwheel had been placed in front of the headstone.

Michael Dubin, who started the business four years ago, last week convinced Unilever of their merits, too.

Although President Bush declared major combat over almost a year ago, last week was the deadliest yet for Americans in uniform.

The paper's Daily Mirror blog reprinted the column, first published five years ago, last week on the 40th anniversary of the assassination: "People were six and seven deep," Juan says, but he got close enough to stick out his hand.

Federal independent MP Bob Katter, who claims he pelted the Beatles with eggs over 50 years ago, last week called for the police charges against the players to be dropped, labelling egging "a great Australian pastime".