年前

• The hotel had opened with a flourish three years ago .
  这家旅馆三年前吹吹打打地开了张。
• China's civilization stretches back four thousand years .
  中国的文化可以上溯到四千年前。
• It happened thirty years ago .
  这事出在30年前。
• They talked about their life in beijing twenty years ago .
  他们谈到了20年前在北京的生活。
• A pound today buys much less than it did a year ago .
  今天一英镑远远买不到一年前能买的那么多东西。
• Thousands of years ago in egypt, salt was used to embalm the dead .
  千万年前埃及人曾利用盐涂尸防腐。
• But i looked well enough that morning ten years ago .
  在十年前的那个早晨，我让人看了还是觉着满象样的。
• Hindley and i held it a favourite spot twenty years ago .
  二十年前辛得雷和我把这儿当做留连忘返的地方。
• German was my major, you know, aeons ago .
  德语曾经是我的主要外国语，你知道，可那是不知多少年前的事了。
• At some time more than five billion years ago the universe started .
  在50亿年前的某个时候，宇宙开始形成。