Sentence examples for ago that even from inspiring English sources

The phrase "ago that even" is not correct and does not make sense in written English.
It seems to be an incorrect combination of words that lacks clarity and context.
Example: "It was a long time ago that even the most experienced travelers were lost in that city."
Alternatives: "long ago that even" or "a while back that even".

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Although the provincial government and the organizers eventually boosted their cost estimate to 175 million Canadian dollars, critics and internal Royal Canadian Mounted Police documents suggested some time ago that even that amount severely underestimated the true cost.

Most of this advertising, through huge TV campaigns and relentless logo-slathering, is devoted to image-building (not surprising, since Consumer Reports concluded a few years ago that even devoted fans of the megasellers Budweiser and Miller Genuine Draft could rarely tell them apart by taste).

It's a long road from Winston Churchill to Barack Obama, who reminded doubters with his victory speech in Iowa 10 days ago that even in the age of TiVo, YouTube and Yahoo News, much power still resides in rhetoric rendered eloquently and delivered with oratorical skill.

After all, it was not long ago that even the house of Wallenberg came perilously close to losing its bank.

The mathematician Alan Turing, he noted, had shown long ago that even very short theorems could have very long proofs, running hundreds of pages.

Wind advocates made a similar argument when the price of natural gas was high about five years ago: that even if wind energy was expensive, it could have a major impact on the price of gas by cutting demand slightly.

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I can't think of anybody else, except maybe the guy that hung up his No. 23 in town a few years ago, that would even compare to Tiger right now".

The Japanese civil rights activist Shosuke Sasaki made the point, decades ago, that "not even a moron would persist in calling a person by any name which that person considered offensive". That means King doesn't get to decide whether or not the slur is acceptable.

Carrie Chiang, the broker at the Corcoran Group who sold the property, said that it was in "triple mint condition" after extensive renovations a few years ago and that even exacting buyers would be able to move in almost immediately.

The talk coming from senior Tories – at least some of whom have the grace to squirm when questioned on this topic – suggesting that it's all terribly complicated, that it was a long time ago and that even SS members were, in some ways, themselves victims, is uncomfortably close to the kind of prattle we used to hear from those we called Holocaust revisionists.

She is also just the funniest, most whimsical person in private among friends". Some colleagues say Seligman immediately gravitated to the highest-profile cases of the firm; one person who worked with her years ago says that even as a young associate Seligman would tend to sit with "the big cheeses" in the firm's private dining room rather than with her peers.

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