a long time ago

Example sentences

• Our own mother died a long time ago, so it is our adoptive mother who looks after us.

  Ami nia inan rasik mate kleur ona, nune'e ami nia inan hakiak mak tau matan ba ami.

• The diagnosis was made a long time ago.

  Diagnostiku halo tiha kleur ona.

• This diagnosis has been made a long time ago.

  Diagnostiku ida-ne'e halo tiha kleur ona.

Examples from the 46,000-sentence English–Tetun parallel corpus.