How to Use not long ago in a Sentence

not long ago

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• The land that is today Sterling Ranch was a working ranch on the prairie not long ago.
  — Olivia Young, CBS News, 13 July 2026
• This is a major stage for Bieber, who not long ago seemed potentially done with performing live.
  — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 8 July 2026
• Garcia didn’t start Kevin de Bruyne, who not long ago was considered by some the best player on the planet.
  — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 July 2026
• If companies were warning about major disruption not long ago, why is the message different now?
  — Caroline Castrillon, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026
• Asteroid mining may sound like a long shot, but so did reusable rockets not long ago — and in both cases, the engineering was never really the question.
  — Charlotte Kiang, Forbes.com, 9 July 2026
• New entrants without that track record face a very different market — smaller, less marketable targets, and deal terms for both the IPO and de-SPAC financing that reflect the skepticism of a capital base that learned expensive lessons not long ago.
  — Drew Bernstein, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026