some time ago

idiom

: at some point in the past

Some time ago, I read that the restaurant had closed.

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But these moves were prepared some time ago and didn’t come as a surprise. —

Alexander Gabuev, Foreign Affairs, 6 Dec. 2024 Allerton had stopped returning Lee’s letters some time ago, and the sting of their broken relationship lingers. —

Nick Romano, EW.com, 27 Nov. 2024 Using ad networking sites, including Google and Facebook, companies can share booking information with users who visited a travel website some time ago. —

Nitin Gupta, Forbes, 25 Nov. 2024 But modernism already ended some time ago and with it, presumably, time itself, as it was widely rumored that space was supposed to replace time in the general ontological scheme of things. —

Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 15 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for some time ago

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