Sentence examples for ago so long from inspiring English sources

The phrase "ago so long" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It is not typically used in standard expressions of time and may confuse readers.
Example: "It feels like it was ago so long that we last met."
Alternatives: "a long time ago" or "so long ago".

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That was a long time ago so long ago that, as of sunrise, the Beltway consensus was still that health-care reform was a dead bill walking.

It was long ago, so long that community and religious groups in town caused nary a stir when they put together plans for a concert to be held Friday, 60 years later.

Indeed Martin Wainwright had a poem about the Dome leisure centre published in the Guardian long ago; so long ago that you'd have to search the Guardian's digital archive to find it.

That was a long time ago so long that TechCrunch editor-in-chief Matthew Panzarino was still a reporter when he wrote about it; he and I were at another publication altogether — and much has changed at Twitter, which has grown massively in popularity to reach 330 million users.

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He continued, "My warrior days were long ago, but not so long ago that I have forgotten their purpose and their reward".

"So long ago, so far away," he wrote in a poem.

(So had Perry, not so long ago).

"It's so long ago.

The glory days seem so long ago.

The late winter seems so long ago.

But that was all so long ago.

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