catflap.org Online Dictionary Query

  It's so long ago now that I can't remember his name. /ɪt ˈɛs sˌəʊ lˈɒŋ ɐɡˈəʊ nˈaʊ ðat aɪ kan tˈiː ɹɪmˈɛmbə hɪz nˈeɪm/
  Das liegt jetzt schon so lange zurück, dass ich mich nicht mehr erinnere, wie er geheißen hat.
   see: be (some time/long) ago, go back, the remarks of a few days ago, over the recent days, over the past (six) years, The incident was about one week ago., It is about a week since the incident., All this happened several years ago., The case goes back more than fifteen years., We are now two years beyond one summit and on the eve of another., Our first meeting took place only six months ago., That was some time ago., So, this was very recently., So, only a short time has passed since then., The apartheid era was not so long ago., It has been too many years since that happened.