(a. & adv.) Past; gone by; since; as, ten years ago; gone long ago.
Example Sentences:
(1) The role of whole Mycobacteria, mycobacterial cell walls and waxes D as immunostimulants was well established many years ago.
(2) Wages for the population as a whole are £1,600 a year worse off than five years ago.
(3) Accidentally discovered nearly 40 years ago as the first true antidepressants, the MAOIs soon fell into disfavor due to concerns about toxicity and seemingly lesser efficacy compared with the newer tricyclic compounds.
(4) When my boyfriend and I first got together a year ago, our sex life was romantic and playful.
(5) Keep it in the ground campaign Though they draw on completely different archives, leaked documents, and interviews with ex-employees, they reach the same damning conclusion: Exxon knew all that there was to know about climate change decades ago, and instead of alerting the rest of us denied the science and obstructed the politics of global warming.
(6) Two years ago, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change declared Egypt's Nile Delta to be among the top three areas on the planet most vulnerable to a rise in sea levels, and even the most optimistic predictions of global temperature increase will still displace millions of Egyptians from one of the most densely populated regions on earth.
(7) But the condition of edifices such as B30 and B38 - and all the other "legacy" structures built at Sellafield decades ago - suggest Britain might end up paying a heavy price for this new commitment to nuclear energy.
(8) Just a few months ago, a director-level position job for Sears was floated by me from the department store chain's headquarters in Chicago.
(9) Responding to a “We the People” petition, launched after Snowden’s initial leaks were published in the Guardian two years ago, the Obama administration on Tuesday reiterated its belief that he should face criminal charges for his actions.
(10) Emily Stow London • Until I retired a year ago I was a consultant anaesthetist with a special interest in obstetric anaesthesia and analgesia.
(11) A role for cAMP in the process of LHRH release was suggested several years ago, but only recently has the validity of this notion come under close scrutiny.
(12) Not long ago the comeback would have been impossible to imagine.
(13) Part of his initial lump sum will be donated to a fund to replace a hall destroyed by fire in an arson attack four years ago at St Luke’s Church in Newton Poppleford.
(14) In one of them, who sustained a complete membranous disruption 5 weeks ago, transluminal puncture failed because of the movable proximal urethra.
(15) New developments in data storage and retrieval forecast applications that could not have been imagined even a year or two ago.
(16) After two placings of shares with institutional investors which began two years ago, the government has been selling shares by “dribbling” them into the market.
(17) Welcomed with open arms a month ago, Syrians are now attacked on popular television talkshows where they are described as Morsi sympathisers.
(18) Two years ago I met a wonderful man and we now feel it’s time to tie the knot.
(19) Lofgren complains that " the crackpot outliers of two decades ago have become the vital centre today ".
(20) said Bengis, a Miami-based lawyer who campaigned hard for Hillary Clinton four years ago before she conceded the Democratic Party's nomination to Barack Obama.
Mya
Definition:
(n.) A genus of bivalve mollusks, including the common long, or soft-shelled, clam.
Example Sentences:
(1) Both phylogenetic and phenetic distance analyses suggest that Alu sequences within the alpha and beta globin gene clusters arose close to the time of simian and prosimian primate divergence (about 50-60 MYA).
(2) To compare biochemical differences between bivalves with and without endosymbiotic chemoautotrophic bacteria, specimens of Solemya velum, a bivalve species known to contain bacterial endosymbionts, and the symbiont-free soft-shelled clam Mya arenaria, were collected from the same subtidal reducing sediments during October and November 1988.
(3) Mya collected at Dennysville had pericardial mesotheliomas and teratoid siphon anomalies in addition to gonadal neoplasms.
(4) The limited genetic variability of human mtDNA has been explained in terms of a recent common genetic ancestry, thus implying that all modern-population mtDNAs originated from a single woman who lived in Africa less than 0.2 Mya.
(5) Among those in the waiting room was Carmen Centeno, with three of her five daughters: Jayne, Mya and Anastasia, who is eight months old.
(6) Elapid alpha-toxins (alpha-bungarotoxin, alpha-cobratoxin and crude Bungarus caeruleus venom) do not affect the myocardial nicotinic ACh receptors of the following bivalve molluscs: Mercenaria mercenaria, Chione cancellata, Mya arenaria, Mytilus edulis, Rangia cuneata and Crassostrea virginica.
(7) However, the progeny virions could not reinfect fCD4-negative Crandell feline kidney cells but could infect fCD4-positive MYA-1 cells.
(8) As these families are not orthologous with the Mhc class II beta-chain-encoding gene families of birds, the different mammalian families must have diverged after the separation of birds and mammals approximately 250 Mya but before the radiation of placental mammals (60-80 Mya).
(9) All FIV strains used, the Petaluma strain and several new isolates, were highly cytopathic to MYA-1.
(10) The titer of feline immunodeficiency virus in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) and the presence of infectious virus in plasma was investigated over 20 week period in 8 experimentally infected cats, 3 uninfected cats and 2 naturally infected cats by end point dilution cultures using a feline T-lymphoblastoid cell line (MYA-1).
(11) Soft shell clams, Mya arenaria, develop leukemias in the hemolymph which are fatal.
(12) The drosophiloid lineage is strictly endemic to Hawaii and originated little more than 10 Mya, according to the alcohol dehydrogenase molecular clock.
(13) A phylogenetic comparison of the psi eta-globin DNA sequence of the spider monkey (Ateles geoffroyi) to orthologous sequences from other primates provides evidence for an evolutionarily recent (less than 17 million years ago (MYA] insertion of a truncated L1 LINE (long interspersed repetitive element).
(14) Molecular clock calculations that accommodated lineage variations in rates of molecular evolution yielded hominoid branching times that ranged from 17-19 million years ago (MYA) for the separation of gibbon from the other hominoids to 5-7 MYA for the separation of chimpanzees from humans.
(15) Thus, the DP region seems to have originated through a recombinational event which brought together a DQB gene and a DRA gene (perhaps approximately 120 Mya).
(16) They’re already struggling to make a life for themselves and they’re now being knocked back even further.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Thomas Radcliffe from MYA hands out provisions from the food bank.
(17) An Alu SINE (short interspersed element), found 3 kb downstream of the poly(A) addition site, arose less than 40 MYA subsequent to the divergence of platyrrhinies (New World monkeys) from catarrhines (humans, apes, and Old World monkeys).
(18) Herbicide contamination is the only common denominator identified at all three sites where Mya have been found with gonadal neoplasms.
(19) Our analysis supports the African origin of modern man, but we found that the ancestral female from which all extant human mtDNAs originated lived in a time span of 0.3-0.8 Mya.
(20) Part of NLD’s policy is to defend human rights and democracy,” said Mya Aye, a rejected Muslim candidate from NLD, “but rejecting Muslim candidates from their party is rejecting the rights of five million Muslim minorities.” In her first trip ever to Rakhine, Suu Kyi will campaign for three days in Taungup, Thandwe and Gwa towns in southern part of the state, where the NLD support is the strongest.