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The phrase "ago we started" is not correct in standard written English.
It is typically used incorrectly as it lacks a specific time reference that would clarify how long ago something started.
Example: "Three months ago we started our new project."
Alternatives: "we began" or "we commenced".
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Exactly 275 years ago, we started documenting it.
[laughs] About two and a half years ago, we started to get serious.
"When we had these kids 18 years ago, we started saving for college," she said.
Twenty years ago, we started because we want to become fashion designers.
Months ago, we started working with one particular sculptor, but it was clear it wasn't right.
About two or three million years ago, we started walking on two feet, and that's when we started swinging sticks.
"Several years ago, we started thinking about sustainability in environmental terms," said Dick Celeste, the president of Colorado College.
"About 10 years ago, we started trying to come up with diagnostics that explained the differences we saw when we trained people," explains Dr Timmons.
When I met my wife, who's Jewish, 15 years ago, we started arguing straightaway, so we knew we were right for each other.
So about five years ago, we started to ask people, well, OK, you tell us what an authentic organization would look like.
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First, the "cognitive" revolution: about 70,000 years ago, we start to behave in far more ingenious ways than before, for reasons that are still obscure, and we spread rapidly across the planet.
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