The phrase "ago late" is not correct and not usable in written English.
It appears to be a combination of two separate time expressions that do not logically fit together.
Example: "I arrived at the meeting late, but it was a week ago."
Alternatives: "previously" or "earlier."
Four years ago, late at night, the White House called.
A few nights ago, late, I finished "Light Years," by James Salter.
About fourteen thousand years ago, late in the last ice age (by which time Wisconsin had assumed its current latitude), an ice dam downstream suddenly gave way.
It was several years ago, late at night, and I was walking down 109th Street and Broadway, heading to the restaurant Rack and Soul.
The theropods of the Mesozoic Era were all two-legged carnivores, from which birds evolved at least 144 million years ago (Late or Middle Jurassic Period).
The exposure of the Victoria crater walls, which occurred likely less than 107 y ago (late Amazonian), shows the accumulation of dust as well as evidence for aqueous concentration of NaBr and/or CaBr, possibly by deliquescence.
Kerry stated a few days ago (latest Exhibit A of his unappealing penchant for hyperbole) that the U.S. has "absolute knowledge" of Iran's prior nuclear weapons programs.
That marketing VP you once called a "fat cow" in a long-ago, late- night e-mail?
The time of origin of orchids is in dispute, although Dressler suggests that they originated 80 to 40 million years ago (Mya; late Cretaceous to late Eocene) [ 6].
"When this issue first arose a few years ago the late David Will, who was former president of the SFA and vice president of Fifa, wrote to me and I still have the letter.
The idea of developing a canal through the narrow southern end of Thailand was proposed over 200 years ago (late 19th century) by Siamese King Narai (Min 2015).
