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from a year ago vs a year ago

Both 'from a year ago' and 'a year ago' are correct, but they are used in different contexts. 'A year ago' is used to refer to a specific point in time one year in the past, while 'from a year ago' is used to indicate a period of time starting one year in the past and continuing up to the present.

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from a year ago

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English to indicate a period of time starting one year in the past and continuing up to the present.

Use 'from a year ago' when you want to refer to a period of time that started one year in the past and is still ongoing.
  • So we took another look at those murders from a year ago.
  • There's a full prescription from a year ago inside the medicine cabinet.
  • What is it? E-mail exchange between Jill and Noelle from a year ago, right after her cure.
  • I'm not the same little girl you remember from a year ago.
  • Lastly, I should like to thank my friend Carl Schlyter for having returned the apple from a year ago.
  • That was from a year ago!
  • Some of the USB cards were dated from a year ago, but I started with the ones from this month.
  • But that's Jake's fiancee from a year ago.
  • No one can be expected to remember something from a year ago.
  • Now this is the investigation from a year ago.
  • Your lungs haven't healed from a year ago.
  • We know that Allison from a year ago and our victim today were both blinded by eyedrops.
  • From a year ago, father let us take care of the business.
  • I brought you NSA intercepts of Dearing's last communications with Maple from a year ago.
  • From a year ago, I think it was...

Alternatives:

  • since a year ago
  • starting a year ago

a year ago

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English to refer to a specific point in time one year in the past.

Use 'a year ago' when you want to specify a particular moment that occurred one year in the past.
  • Pretty successful until a year ago.
  • I filed chapter 11 a year ago.
  • He saved my life a year ago.
  • Investigation started almost a year ago.
  • Mr Jezequiel died a year ago.
  • Diagnosis was established a year ago.
  • Ensign transferred over a year ago.
  • My father remarried a year ago.
  • Professor Pappas died a year ago.
  • India's unique identification program started just a year ago.
  • But Charlie stopped chemotherapy almost a year ago.
  • It's an industrial laundry the DEA seized a year ago.
  • I remembered this piece that "Frontline" did a year ago...
  • Brittany Oswald, junior at St Michael's, disappeared a year ago.
  • My impotence set in a year ago.
  • The letter was dated almost a year ago.
  • His parents were killed by raiders a year ago.
  • I was here a year ago.
  • About a year ago, there was this guy.
  • About a year ago, when the headmaster came.

Alternatives:

  • one year ago
  • a year in the past

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