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I don't know if I continue, even today, always liking myself. But what I learned to do many years ago was to forgive myself.

Worst affected are the big cities of southern China, notably Shenzhen, which only a year ago was an extremely hot market.

To do those things a few years ago was a bit immoral. But electronics is no longer immoral.

At least that's the thinking. But remember, the thinking a decade ago was that stimulus was pointless.

At least sorting out the things she should have discarded years ago was now being made easier for her.

But the sharp drop in February compared with a year ago was unexpected; economists had been predicting little change.

The winger has two years remaining on his contract and, a few months ago, was unsure whether he would prosper under the Portuguese.

But for Joyce Chavis, the problem until a few years ago was that she could not let toddlers in her care step outside her house.

The subject which had been so warmly canvassed between their parents, about a twelvemonth ago, was now brought forward again.

One man in Australia a couple of years ago was under the delusion that his father was replaced with a robot and cut off his head.

The busiest woman in Labrador during one bitter cold Christmas not very long ago, was an Australian nurse by the name of Kate Austen.

The seeming boldness of world leaders a year ago was a product of the moment.

He said the dorm, built 15 years ago, was structurally deficient, but he was reluctant to assign blame.

The rule I set for myself 10 years ago was that if the press calls it a bubble then I'd pay attention.

The Bloomsbury Group in London six decades ago was not much hampered by its lack of a temporal history.

"My goal in bringing up this whole issue a year ago was to bridge the gap between cultures, " she said.

he had made a moment ago, was for the moment unable to say anything in reply and puffed away furiously on his pipe.

If their speed had been constant, they would all have been on top of one another billions of years ago. Was this how the universe began?

The move would complete a rapid journey for the company, which less than a year ago was a subsidiary of Ebay.

There's nothing more rewarding than being in bed with a beautiful, intelligent woman who, just a few months ago, was out of your league.

By the time the frantic talks concluded last Sunday night, Mr Cayne's stake in Bear, worth more than $1bn a year ago, was reduced to $14m.

The visit of Hillary Clinton, the secretary of state, a few months ago, was in the spirit of such a new relationship.

Apple Senior Vice President Scott Forstall said Tuesday that Apple, which had promised 'push' some time ago, was 'late' in delivering it.

Southwest China's Sichuan province, where the earthquake struck a week ago, was in public mourning on Saturday.

The concept of a budget cap a couple of years ago was thought to be fairly ludicrous.

George Bush's verdict during the worst of the financial crisis a year ago was crude but penetrating.

That's big news for any 16-year-old, but it's a huge deal for a young girl who a year ago was nearly blind.

On December 8th a draft agreement which had been discussed some weeks ago was leaked to the Guardian.

It's been a rapid rise for an idea that, only months ago, was located firmly in the political fringe.

Cyberspace, not so long ago, was a specific elsewhere, one we visited periodically, peering into it from the familiar physical world.

The first time I taught this class, it was a few years ago, was just before they built the Stata Center.

It's capital is Urumqi, which not so long ago was an important oasis on the Silk Road.

For instance, the Great War in Europe some twenty years ago was an unjust, imperialist war.

The work of a man by the name Mendel a hundred years ago was especially important.

I just thought of something. . . That explosion in the Scottish forest a couple of months ago, was that a meteorite impact?

the compass of yonder town, which only a little time ago was but a leaf-strewn desert, as lonely as this around us?

In the past two decades, Jews have called it the City of David, a part of what thousands of years ago was the ancient Jewish capital.

Among the first Google initiatives on the continent since setting up offices there three years ago was the expansion of Google Maps.

That's pretty forward thinking for a publication that, not so long ago, was still blocking access to their content on the Web.

My younger daughter has just got a place at Oxford which, a generation ago, was a fail-safe passport to a decent job.

As well, some people speculated Kim Jong Il, who suffered a stroke-like illness two years ago, was in poor health again.

One odd ibis, first described over thirty years ago, was unlike any other bird to have ever evolved.

One thing that my partner and I agreed on a few years ago was to have a fixed day of the week to go out eating together.

"The problem 30 years ago was that doing something environmentally sound required asceticism and sacrifice, " Vaswani said.

The article said a few days ago was killed by armed opposition commander Younis is a good example.

The influx of weapons has reinvigorated the insurrection in northern Syria, which less than six weeks ago was on the verge of being crushed.

Jezebel, having opened that door long ago, was now a woman totally infested with satanic evil.

Cc, born two months ago, was the only live birth from 87 cloned embryos that were implanted in surrogate mothers.

"A few days ago was the first time I've been in, " he said.

A plague that 30 years ago was blamed on man's iniquity has ended up showing him in a better, more inventive and generous light.

Reg says his milk run many years ago was a night delivery and he had plenty of time during the day to spend on greyhounds.

The announce club established two years ago was more than playing misic.

That didn't prevent a tough interrogation by analysts who wondered why Merrill's estimate of its losses a few weeks ago was so far off.

Cretaceous Period, 145 million years ago, was the age of the dinosaurs.

The flooding has hit a region which, until days ago, was coping with one of the worst droughts in recent times.

Mr Levin's apology for the disastrous merger of Time Warner and America Online 10 years ago was the least equivocal.

For mainland China, the earthquake that hit Sichuan province two years ago was a catalyst for philanthropy.

This is an indication that the agreement, which just two years ago was called "historic, " is quite inadequate now, officials say.

The report a month ago was that second quarter growth was even slower than sharply revised forecasts, coming in at only 2. 4%.

And what happened a month ago was that the Chinese company, Geely, they acquired the Volvo company.

In spite of appearances at the time, the crisis that began a year ago was made in the US and its credit markets.

After the ship sank, salvage of it's ago was impossible.

Noni effects of the use of a few years ago was also confirmed by another example.

OPEC's gathering in Quito two days ago was the seventh meeting with no change in output quotas.

The third storyline I did about a year and a half ago was probably my most difficult.

Even so, his latest rebuke of President Assad, a man he considered a personal friend until a few months ago, was dramatic.

The end of the Permian period, 252m years ago, was marked by the biggest extinction of life known to have happened on Earth.

The strike, which began more than two weeks ago, was part of a wider campaign of industrial action against the government's pension reforms.

Telling the nation that the pact had been made long ago was a big mistake, says a former high-ranking Kremlin official.

The fear is that such an emphatic win will reopen divisions in what not so long ago was South-East Asia's brightest democracy.

Crisis has forced us to think what, not so long ago, was unthinkable.

Connie : Life on this farm two hundred years ago was difficult. The men did the farm work. They did the plowing.

The bill Hillary Clinton drafted and sent to Congress 16 years ago was more or less dead on arrival.

A popular afternoon television program a few years ago was hosted by a self-proclaimed medium.

Lesotho's most recent general election, three years ago, was marred by a row over the allocation of its 120 seats.

One of the popular symbols of Easter is Easter Bunny, which is a rabbit-spirit and long ago was called "Easter Hare" .

Altamirano, who was elected two years ago was murdered by hundreds of farmers who accused him of corruption acts.

The trip, Mr. Obama's first to the war zone since taking office 14 months ago, was shrouded in secrecy for security reasons.

The big clock which used to striking the hours day and night many years ago was damaged and since then it became quiet.

The work that four generations ago was done by men and horses is now mostly done by machines.

An expected appearance at the opening match a month ago was cancelled after Mr. Mandela's great-granddaughter was killed in a car accident.

A merchant boat loaded with porcelain that sank off the south China coast 800 years ago was raised on Friday, one day earlier than planned .

This means that libel law 216 years ago was more liberal and more in tune with the principle of free speech than it is today.

My life a year ago was becoming so happy for the first time in life.

Shale discoveries have reinvigorated U. S. oil and gas production that just half a dozen years ago was widely seen as in terminal decline.

And the creation of a second campus in Singapore a decade ago was "very, very brave" .

IE7, released two years ago, was initially designed to include a box taking users directly to Microsoft's own search engine.

The city where I lived a few years ago was a dynamic city.

Our knowledge of the oceans, a hundred years ago, was confined to the two-dimensional shape of the sea-surface.

The yield or interest on Portugal's 10-year bonds, which stood at 5. 8% a year ago, was at 8. 54% on Wednesday.

Nanjing Dong Lu, whose history can be traced back 150 years ago, was once known as the "Number One Commercial Street in China. "

But what Turkey and Israel had in mind just four years ago was something akin to being joined at the hip.

When I got there, the case which happened five days ago was being investigated.

Her father, an influential owner-editor murdered four years ago, was Greek Orthodox, her paternal grandmother a famous Druze poet.

Journal Register stock, which traded as high as $23. 87 a decade ago, was removed from the listings of the New York Stock Exchange in April.

The Permian-Triassic extinction event about 250 million years ago was the deadliest: More than 90 percent of all species perished.

Textbooks say Archaeopteryx, which lived some 150 million years ago, was the first bird.

The performance of the authorities following the most recent big earthquake, in Umbria and Marche 12 years ago, was slow but steady.

Patricia : And how long ago was that?

Mobilizing people around a cause 30 years ago -- even 10 years ago -- was not such an easy thing to accomplish.

As Wolfowitz recently recalled, the Indonesia of 20 years ago was "euphemistically called an autocratic regime. "

His toupee, obviously fitted many years ago, was slightly off centre and barely covered his spreading baldness.

The little girl you saw a moment ago was my niece.

Four billion years ago was a hellish time on planet Earth.

This place a couple of years ago was empty. Now everybody from the world comes here to make their exploration.

How long ago was that first race?

Camels along a deserted section of land that years ago was flush with vegetation and water before the drought.

I think the game against West Brom a couple of weeks ago was his best game for us.

Marta: How long ago was that?

Life on this farm two hundred years ago was difficult.

The boy who disappeared 5 years ago was believed to be died but actually he was alive.

The games industry 10 years ago was a toy business in the minds of most consumers.

I think the way he treated his friends a couple of films ago was quite questionable.

In 2007, the new national curriculum, issued five years ago, was implemented in Jilin province.

The average household expenditure two years ago was $49, 000.

How long ago was that?

The comparable figure from 10 years ago was just over $222 billion.

The depression score of work women who came 10 months ago was correlated with constipation and fatigue.

This is power that a few short years ago was reserved only for the law enforcement agencies.

Liverpoool's win here 12 months ago was United's heaviest home defeat in the Premier League and their worst for 17 years.

Parenting 88 years ago was generally strict but remote.

How many years ago was that?

The world of 1, 000 years ago was a miserable place: dirty, war-scorched and mostly illiterate.

Grandpa, this restaurant looks really old! How long ago was it built?

Let us take an obvious example. Man, even five hundred years ago, was shorter than he is today.

Tom wasn't here a month ago, was he?

Having your photograph taken in China some 30 years ago was a serious business.

How long ago was it that the accident happened?

Ms. Zhou said her house, built over 10 years ago, was brick, which is common in this area.

It said that pay three years ago was 900 yuan a month.

How long ago was it he was declaring the Earth flat?

The altiplano which you had been to years ago was just sleeping under the lithosphere.

Having arrived I asked : 'How long ago was this house built ?

who just a year ago was standing in a bread line

The output of the factory ten years ago was only one fifth what it is now.

The Tory party of ten years ago was slow to grasp the importance of social policies.

One of the Chinese students at Yale several years ago WAS a versatile sportsman

The wood that they had claimed two weeks ago was now theirs

Mila long ago was told that her ancient ancestors smelled like flowers;