sometime ago

The job would have been finished sometime ago if you hadn't thrown a spanner in the works by supplying me with the wrong materials.

要不是你给我提供错误的材料阻挠了我的工作，我早就把它做完了。

Sometime ago, when the ice-creams were not so expensive, a ten-year old boy went to an ice-cream parlour.

很久以前，雪糕还不是这么贵的时候，一个10岁的男孩到一个雪糕店。

Second question concerning space and time: Sometime ago, we have been told that Einstein's idea of space-time is not the correct one, and that we should go back to some other ideas.

第二个问题关于空间和时间：一段时间之前，我们被告知爱因斯坦关于空间时间的理论不正确，我们应该回到其他理论上。

Its right hand had been damaged sometime ago, but the finger finally broke off in a storm late Thursday.

之前基督雕像的右手就曾被闪电毁损过，但在上周四的一场暴风雨中，右手中指尖还是被削掉了。

He gave us a detailed report sometime ago.

他曾给我们一个详细的报告。

Sometime ago, an English school teacher, looking for rooms in a small town in Switzerland, asked the local school headmaster to make recommendations.

不久以前，一个英语学校的老师，想在瑞士的一个小城镇找房子，于是她请当地学校的校长提出建议。

He made a regrettable mistake sometime ago and still feels regretful now.

不久之前他犯了一个令人遗憾的错误，现在他心里依然感到懊悔。

Had we chosen this option, sometime around 200000 years ago,

假如我们在大约二十万年前的时候选择了这个方法

Sometime ago, two young people came to our house and they gave me a large sum of money to feed the poor.

前些日子，两个年轻人到我们的收容所来给我一大笔钱用来买东西给穷人吃。