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The phrase "ago when he received" is not correct in written English.
It is a confusing construction that mixes time references and is not typically used in standard English.
Example: "It was two weeks ago when he received the package."
Alternatives: "when he got it" or "when he obtained it".
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— Frank Herrera, a prominent lawyer in Texas, was sitting at home two Saturdays ago when he received a telephone call.
Dr. Wagner recalls the time a couple of years ago when he received a unit of cord blood that turned out to have been misidentified by the bank.
She said they had met Mr. Jackson in Gary a couple of years ago when he received a key to the city.
Some of the fire is friendly fire: Tim McHenry, the director of public programs at the Rubin Museum in New York, was at a Columbia University debate a few weeks ago when he received a text that read, "Hey cathy!!!
One was a few weeks ago, when he received a letter from a mortgage company telling him that he was six months behind in paying real estate taxes on his house and on a rental property.
Dr. Mouw, who found Mr. Lieberman's statements pleasing, said that American society was more open to public expressions of religious identity than it was 30 years ago, when he received his doctorate in philosophy from the University of Chicago.
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