How about a fourth choice: (d) earlier.

Mieke

p.s.  So sorry to have had to miss the recent ATEG conference.


> >A german taxi-driver, Franz Bussman, recently found a brother who was
> >thought to have been killed twenty years  _____.
> >there are three choices: (a) ago (b) before (c) previously


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