Sentence examples for then long ago from inspiring English sources

They knew, even then, long ago, the ancestors knew!

On the chaste little house at No. 53, a disturbance in the brick indicates that someone deepened the original window openings to make them full height but then, long ago, filled them up again.

But God — and I felt this even then, so long ago, on that tremendous floor, unwillingly — is white.

And then, not so long ago, David developed prostate cancer.

Then, not so long ago, I spotted him in a gallery.

Not so long ago, when then Governor Schwarzenegger and then California Attorney General Brown joined forces to fight in court against Bush Administration efforts to kill the tailpipe emissions law signed by Governor Gray Davis in 2002, Washington was not only not a partner, it was an enemy.

But then it was not so long ago that few people, outside Arkansas, had heard of Hillary Rodham, yet now it seems her political career may well continue long after her husband's.

Given his driven decades at Microsoft, it may be hard to imagine Gates being interested in such softer qualities; but then it was hard not so long ago to imagine him giving most of his money away.

I was never examined in relation to the asbestos until not so long ago - and then they found out it was asbestos on my lungs".

But then again, it wasn't so long ago at all that people thought digital job applications would never seriously take off.

Damn, this stuff was laid down so long ago that back then, nobody had ever heard of Lady Gaga or One Direction!