nián qián

Translation

  • before the end of the year
  • before the new year

Examples

  • 我三年前见过他。
    I saw him three years ago.
  • 意外发生在两年前
    The accident happened two years ago.
  • 这家宾馆建于大约五十年前
    That hotel was established about 50 years ago.
  • 我两年前戒菸了。
    I quit smoking two years ago.
  • 许多年前这里有一座城堡。
    There was a castle here many years ago.
  • 我弟弟没我两年前高。
    My brother is not as tall as I was two years ago.
  • 他在数年前去世了。
    He died some years since.
  • 家父是在三年前离世的,也就是一九七七年。
    My father died three years ago, that is to say in 1977.
  • 大学在20年前由他的父亲建立。
    The university was founded by his father twenty years ago.
  • 他在1970年前往伦敦。
    He went to London in 1970.
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