It happened over a year ago.

The Philippines reopened for business under new management only a little more than a year ago.

The history begins more than five hundred years ago.

Degas was born more than 150 years ago.

It happened over a year ago.

Two years ago, the picture looked a bit brighter.

Degas was born more than 150 years ago.

It was built more than 500 years ago.

Getúlio Vargas killed himself with a gun more than thirty years ago.

It all happened more than three years ago.

It was founded more than 2700 years ago.

To be sure, Africa is a far better place to do business than five years ago.

He is better off than he was ten years ago.

We lost sight of them over half an hour ago.

Our ancestors came here over a hundred years ago.

The region is both more democratic and more unequal than it was ten years ago.

Tom moved to Australia a little over three years ago.

This is a big step backward for press freedom.

The implications of research on the first proteins to be studied almost half a century ago were profound.

More than two years ago we wrote about national sports.

A year ago today, almost one thousand civilians were gassed to death in Syria.

Hence, the European Council s Lisbon Strategy of 2000, which centered around a pledge to increase general research and development spending by 50 over the following decade.

To stay in the game, the EU acknowledged a decade ago that it needed to become uniquely inventive.

I did some work for Microsoft a few years back.

If, in Astana, a high level group reinforces the idea of a referendum and sets a mutually acceptable date, this would be a significant achievement.

Interdependence has become much more complex than it was even a decade ago.

The Greek election outcome was foreseeable for more than a year.

A little more than two years ago, Kosovo voted for independence from Serbia.

To the wide public, IMB is a symbol of technological revolution the company is seen as a highly temporary one, yet it was founded over a hundred years ago.

Harris ( hchrono) saw the tragedy as a step backwards for Greece

The US of 2013 is both more reflective than it was a decade ago and more consciously connected to the world.

Moreover, the sharpest decline occurred more than four decades ago, in the late 1960 s and early 1970 s.

It has not swung back to Stalinism Czarism might be a better historical metaphor.

Over fifty years ago, the UN s General Assembly proclaimed a Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

A century ago, this would have been a community of more than 50 people.

In retrospect, I should have treated her with more respect.

The relationship between epilepsy and glucose metabolism was established more than 85 years ago.

Instead, today s Middle East is most usefully compared to the increasingly restive former Soviet republics of a few years ago.

After all, actions are also necessary to roll back open trade.

Imagine a child s experience a century ago or earlier. Some 5,000 years ago, the Chinese used acupuncture, not dental care, to treat toothaches.

And if I go back in time, I've added some historical statistics here we go, here we go, here we go not so much statistics 100 years ago.

The portraits of Politkovskaya, like a multitude of mirrors, were calling us back to a much darker reality.

The world's drug problems are far more severe today than they were a century ago. Not that drug use has increased fantastically after all, huge quantities of alcohol, opium and other drugs were consumed back then.

Most are less stable today than they were five years ago.

1958, Ghana becomes independent, so it is just over 50 years ago.