Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [adv] [prep] the previous " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the following day the share price index , which had fallen sharply during the previous year ( largely because funds had been siphoned from the stock exchange into real estate speculation ) , rose by almost 30 points , one of its biggest one-day gains . |
| 2 | Such a proposal is now of another era , however , and I was present when an ex-Dean of Academic Studies at the college presented a paper ( Stead 1980 ) attacking the trend to expensive , amalgamated police units which had grown up in the previous two decades . |
| 3 | Simultaneously , the rateable values for business were moved more into line with market values , leading to enormous ( and justified ! ) increases in the tax assessment for firms in the south-east , where property prices had risen substantially since the previous assessment of rateable values years earlier . |
| 4 | When I joined they had just published The Thorn Birds so Futura was on a real high — it had expanded considerably over the previous 18 months . ’ |
| 5 | But he also knew it had been destroyed ; like Lebanon and the 40,000 who had died there over the previous 17 months . |
| 6 | All that can sensibly be said is that , given everything capitalism had gone through over the previous few years , a collapse of confidence was to be expected at some point . |
| 7 | He stared steadily outwards towards the ducks and flamingos while Kraal mantled his plumage , let out a harsh call or two and dropped down into the shelter to pick at the remnant of meat he had left over from the previous day . |
| 8 | The higher income of married couples and men living alone was the combined result of the continued involvement of men in the labour market after the statutory retirement age , although this had decreased sharply over the previous few years , and of the receipt of occupational pensions . |
| 9 | The castle 's black-cloaked seneschal had scowled darkly on the previous occasions when Quiss had tracked him down in the kitchens and asked him what was going on and what he intended to do about it ; he made dour excuses and talked of the corrosive effects of salt water and what a mess it made of his pipes and anyway materials were very hard to come by these days — What days ? |
| 10 | However , while battles such as those of the Jarama ( February 1937 ) , Guadalajara ( March 1937 ) and Brunete ( July 1937 ) were fought bitterly and with heavy casualties on both sides , as the Civil War entered its second year the fronts around Madrid had changed little since the previous November . |