1 That was ten--eleven years ago.
2 It was bombed in--oh, many years ago.
3 That wasn't made less than a hundred years ago.
4 Comrade Ogilvy, unimagined an hour ago, was now a fact.
5 Two weeks ago I thought seriously of smashing your head in with a cobblestone.
6 Goldstein himself, it was said, had sometimes been seen there, years and decades ago.
7 And that was--well, I couldn't give you the date, but it must'a been fifty years ago.
8 He, Winston Smith, knew that Oceania had been in alliance with Eurasia as short a time as four years ago.
9 Only five nights ago he had contemplated smashing her skull in with a cobblestone, but that was of no importance.
10 As he turned it occurred to him that the girl had only passed him three minutes ago and that by running he could probably catch up with her.
11 He began telling Julia of something that had happened, or rather had failed to happen, on another sweltering summer afternoon, eleven years ago.
12 The invention of aeroplanes dated from long before her birth, but the switchover in the war had happened only four years ago, well after she was grown up.
13 The thing that now suddenly struck Winston was that his mother's death, nearly thirty years ago, had been tragic and sorrowful in a way that was no longer possible.
14 It consisted in falsifying a series of production reports of two years ago, in such a way as to cast discredit on a prominent member of the Inner Party, who was now under a cloud.
15 The older generation had mostly been wiped out in the great purges of the fifties and sixties, and the few who survived had long ago been terrified into complete intellectual surrender.
16 They remembered a million useless things, a quarrel with a workmate, a hunt for a lost bicycle pump, the expression on a long-dead sister's face, the swirls of dust on a windy morning seventy years ago: but all the relevant facts were outside the range of their vision.
17 Day and night the telescreens bruised your ears with statistics proving that people today had more food, more clothes, better houses, better recreations--that they lived longer, worked shorter hours, were bigger, healthier, stronger, happier, more intelligent, better educated, than the people of fifty years ago.
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