The phrase "ago when a new" is not correct and does not form a coherent expression in written English.
It seems to be an incomplete thought and lacks clarity, making it difficult to determine its intended use.
Example: "It was a long time ago when a new policy was introduced."
Alternatives: "some time back when a new" or "previously when a new".
FORT MONTGOMERY, N.Y., Oct. 26 - Twelve years ago, when a new gasoline additive held the promise of reducing air pollution, New York State made a huge bet that the technology would work.
We had no noise problems from the apartment above until about six months ago when a new tenant moved in.
"The whole thing began a few years ago when a new breed of festivals emerged," Petra Barran, who founded the Choc Star van, says.
But I am reminded of an incident a couple of years ago when a new theatre was opened in Buenos Aires.
Until a few years ago, when a new constitution was adopted and nationalism stirred the country, Siam was managed for the most part by an international team of experts; and the churces were allowed to win converts.
He told The Independent that the chain of events which led to the referendum in fact began many years ago, when "a new Scotland was born out of the industrial ashes of the 1980s".
That's what happened a few weeks ago, when a New York artist and mother of a seventh-grade boy blew a fuse after she offered an exciting and expensive day trip, go-kart racing, as a birthday gift to one of her son's friends and his mother kept putting up roadblocks to the plan.
Koolhaas and Ramus did not pretend that the world is unchanged since 1911 — a view that held sway in Chicago a few years ago when a huge new central library designed by the architect Thomas Beeby went up.
A half-century ago, when a vast new shopping center debuted a mile east of the Las Vegas Strip, anyone who mattered came by.
The lack of excitement this fall came in stark contrast to a year ago, when a host of new series broke through as hits: "Two Broke Girls" on CBS, "New Girl" on Fox, "Once Upon a Time" on ABC and many others.
NOT long ago, when a 20-something New Yorker told me, "I'm going to grandma's place in Florida to spend a week with the gerries," it took a moment to realize that the word was a truncation of "geriatric".
