The phrase "ago recognised" is not correct in standard written English.
The word "ago" is typically used to indicate a time in the past and should not be combined with "recognised" in this way.
Example: "The discovery was recognised many years ago."
Alternatives: "previously acknowledged" or "earlier recognized."
The bond market long ago recognised that reality.
David Blunkett, the Labour home secretary who introduced the IPP policy in 2005, long ago recognised that it was a mistake.
Suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst's mantra more than a century ago recognised that the law constituted one of the greatest obstacles to women's rights.
As Adam Smith long ago recognised, markets need good information to function well, for the benefit of both buyers and sellers.
Novelists long ago recognised this truth; literature is full of characters falling in love with the people in paintings, obsessing over enigmatic figures, feeling intimidated – or intensely disappointed, in the case of Madame Bovary – by their first sighting of a tarry old master.
The author's multitude of fans – Garner's work is "where human emotion and mythic resonance, sexuality and geology, modernity and memory and craftsmanship meet and cross-fertilise", says Pullman, and "any country except Britain would have long ago recognised his importance, and celebrated it with postage stamps and statues and street names" – will welcome his change of mind.
"A century ago he recognised dishonesty was inherent in Arab society.
The curve has been upward since, and during their three-day prep at Merion a fortnight ago both recognised the potential in Merion's historic planes and hollows.
I met Freddie "Andrew Flintofff in the departure lounge at McCarron Airport a few years ago (I recognised his voice when he went off for a crafty fag outside).
He dotes on his daughter with Garcia, Simone Alexander, saying earlier this year that "Long ago I recognised how cool and special the daddy-daughter relationship is".
Yesterday members of the Orthodox Haredi Jewish community in Stamford Hill, north London, spoke warmly of the Beth Din, the rabbinical court set up by a British statute more than a century ago and recognised within the UK legal system.
