Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [prep] the previous [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Early on , she demanded from each member a list of the people they had consulted during the previous three months . |
| 2 | The Chief Officer needed to contribute to this work and to help the Council maintain the influence in higher education it had developed in the previous six years , and to develop public awareness of the Council 's aims and activities . |
| 3 | What sins , what meannesses , what grave errors I had committed in the previous ten years had been forgiven me . |
| 4 | The Unity Campaign could hardly avoid the accusation that it was creating a new organization to invite Labour Party members to work together with Communists , which every Labour Conference decision had forbidden over the previous ten years . |
| 5 | The exciting promise John had revealed over the previous eighteen months was rewarded by a place on the England tour of Australasia in June 1991 where he demonstrated his capacity to excite the crowd and to bemuse the opposition by featuring prominently in all four matches , thereby staking a claim for a regular inclusion in the national side . |
| 6 | Curtis remarked to Springfield that he must have seen more action in Rockford in the space of a few days , than he had done in the previous few years . |
| 7 | Everything that he had written during the previous four years on the overriding need to oppose fascism , on the need to defend nation states through the creation of a Strong system of alliances based on collective security , and on the central role of the Soviet Union in promoting peace and stability , all was reduced to the level of absurdity by the Nazi-Soviet pact , the invasion of Poland and subsequently the war in Finland . |
| 8 | Raphael ( 1982 ) provides qualitative descriptions of the experiences of thirty-five children aged between two and eight years in twenty families in which either the mother or father had died in the previous two to eight weeks . |
| 9 | The number of duodenal ulcer episodes that had occurred during the previous two years was noted . |
| 10 | The confrontation was symbolic of the accelerating polarization which had occurred over the previous five years , with the Popular Front calling for a determined re-application of the policies of 1931–3 and the right for radical constitutional revision . |
| 11 | These more loyal long service employees had an intuitive feeling that the division would ultimately go out of business in the UK if it continued to operate in the way it had behaved over the previous ten years . |
| 12 | Their initiative was thought to have been in response to an open letter published on Jan. 15 under the signatures of three former Presidents , the Archbishop of Bogotá , and the leader of the left-wing Patriotic Union Party ( UP ) , which had offered them the prospect of " society 's support … for less rigorous treatment " by the government if they released the estimated dozens of hostages they had seized over the previous two months and stopped drug trafficking . |
| 13 | The councillors were drawn heavily from people who had served on the previous local authorities : and most of the public remained ignorant and apathetic towards local government ( Rhodes 1972:420 — 1 ) . |
| 14 | In introducing the 23 ministers , only two of whom , apart from the Prime Minister himself , had served in the previous interim administration , Roman stressed their youth and their " clean " past . |
| 15 | What had happened during the previous 30 months to cause the right hon. Gentleman to change his apparent convictions of 30 years ? |
| 16 | At any rate , so far as Zuwaya are concerned , it was those men who were fifty to sixty years old in 1979 who had created in the previous three decades the marked differences in wealth which did exist . |
| 17 | On Oct. 22 , 1989 , Ogonek published a poll , only 12 per cent of respondents to which believed that perestroika ( " restructuring " ) would lead to significant positive change ; only 23 per cent said that their living standards had improved over the previous two to three years . |
| 18 | ‘ Staff numbers had doubled over the previous five to six years and a programme of change had been thrust upon us by the market , ’ explained . |