The phrase "ago when he declared" is not correct in written English.
It is not a standard construction and may lead to confusion regarding the intended meaning.
Example: "It was a long time ago when he declared his intentions to run for office."
Alternatives: "some time back when he announced" or "previously when he stated".
But Obama was also right a few months ago when he declared, "This will not be quick, nor easy.
On Tuesday, however, there was a conspicuous absence of Trump Administration officials and surrogates repeating the claim that Reince Priebus, the White House chief of staff, made just a few days ago, when he declared that news stories about the June 9, 2016, meeting between Trump, Jr., and Veselnitskaya at Trump Tower were "a nothingburger".
Thanks to Derbyshire, I now realize that Greene was right all those years ago when he declared that the American right was, for all intents and purposes, whites-only.
The urgency was unchanged from the day seven years ago when he first declared war against the Mexican government on behalf of a ragtag mob of Indians called the Zapatista National Liberation Army.
Ortega did not ameliorate those concerns when he declared, a few months ago, that the lake was "already contaminated".
A century ago Theodore Roosevelt expressed another important quality of this translation when he declared: "The King James Bible is a Magna Carta for the poor and oppressed: the most democratic book in the world".
Mr. Sokolowski, who lost his nightclub and restaurant when he declared bankruptcy more than 10 years ago, bought and sold several properties in Harlem in recent years, according to real estate records and city filings.
A few years ago, film critic Roger Ebert royally put his foot in it when he declared that video games could never be art.
When he declared on Sunday television a few weeks ago that he would vote to leave the European Union, to his mind he was merely stating the obvious, without realising the impact his words would have.
TEN YEARS ago Romano Prodi, the-then president of the European Commission, created a stink when he declared that the euro zone's budget rules were "stupid" because they were too rigid.
"I guess it came down to a lack of confidence Friday night," Dixon said today, a bit more subdued than the day two weeks ago when he declared that football "is always fun, fun, fun".
