Use ago to mean "earlier" or "in the past."
The adverb ago refers to a time before the present moment, sometimes in the distant past, and sometimes more recently.
a long time ago
a short while ago
two years ago
long ago
not long ago
not so long ago
some time ago
How long ago was it?
as long ago as 1978
no longer ago than yesterday
a week ago
a little while ago
just a moment ago
It happened ages ago.
It happened long ago.
Dinosaurs lived a long time ago.
We met two months ago.
We got married about a year ago.
He died two years ago.
He was killed a few days ago in an accident.
Sixty years ago my grandfather came to the U.S.
Let us take stock and remind ourselves, once again, what the situation was like five years ago.
I started taking a real interest in this question months and months ago.
"But I have got used to this by now," he told me when I met with him in Dharamsala not long ago.
Organizers and participants also wanted a chance to distance themselves from the fiery upheaval of a half-century ago.
I did this a couple of years ago when I attended a reunion of college friends.
The Mayas had a peculiar civilization of their own, thousands of years ago, and their calendar system was so involved.
