Example sentences of "[verb] for the previous " in BNC.
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| 1 | Account for the previous week , he is busy filling in the end-of-month returns required by Company Headquarters . |
| 2 | Dysmap works by solving a large number of simultaneous equations at specified time intervals , using the information already calculated for the previous time interval as the basis for the current series of calculations . |
| 3 | The trial had been featured for the previous three days . |
| 4 | But the second games started , Merton would move , striding like a supermarket trolley attendant into the ring and ignoring all the ‘ rules ’ of improvisational comedy that the other clever-clever types had been carefully developing for the previous few years . |
| 5 | Before the building of roads , it was peripheral and resembled that practised for the previous 350 years . |
| 6 | Where , in Persuasion , the younger Musgroves ' search for novelty gets them into trouble , other new ventures meet with approval , like Emma 's introduction into Hartfield of a large modern circular table , as in Fig. 7b , in place of the smaller portable Pembroke ( Fig. 41a ) on to which her father 's tea and supper have been crowded for the previous forty years . |
| 7 | On April 8 it was reported that ANC peace talks with Inkatha , scheduled for the previous weekend , had been called off as a result of the ANC 's May 9 ultimatum to de Klerk . |
| 8 | He regressed the change in the spot price on the change in the futures price for the previous five-minute period and found a positive and highly significant relationship . |
| 9 | All state secondary schools are required by law to publish their results once a year and so now you can write or phone individual school secretaries or the LEA and ask for a copy of the exam results , ideally asking for the previous 2 or 3 years . |
| 10 | Depending on the efficiency of the staff of the accounts department the cost accounts for the previous month should be available to management within a maximum period of a further seven days , making a total maximum delay of 21 days . |
| 11 | A year ago , having for the previous five years been one of the quietest incumbents of the Quirinale Palace , Mr Cossiga announced his intention ‘ to shake a few pebbles out of my shoes ’ . |
| 12 | Earlier , police in Pretoria had on Sept. 17 arrested Piet ( " Skiet " ) Rudolph , deputy leader of the far-right Boerestaat party , who had been wanted for the previous four months in connection with bombings and arms thefts . |
| 13 | Congress approved on Oct. 26 a defence budget for fiscal year 1991 of $288,300 million , $16,700 million less than had been authorized for the previous year [ see p. 37409 ] . |
| 14 | No doubt the privies , there were two of them , were much appreciated by the tenants , but one wonders how they managed for the previous two or three years . |
| 15 | In 1910 , Tom Mann came back from Australia , where he had been engaged in political and trade union campaigning for the previous nine years . |
| 16 | Not to be mistaken for the previous car to wear that badge , which was rather short on driver appeal , the new 300 ZX represents a serious threat to Europe 's sports car makers . |
| 17 | ( d ) She had for the previous 24 hours been receiving narcotic drugs and antibiotics and was in a state in which it was necessary to give her oxygen . |
| 18 | In Palermo , Sicily , an absolute majority was won by the DC list headed by the former mayor Leoluca Orlando ( representing the left-oriented faction of the DC ) , who until his resignation in February had for the previous 2@1/2 years headed an " anti-Mafia " coalition of the DC and the PCI . |
| 19 | In the early hours of Sunday 13 February 1692 , Captain Campbell , from a clan hostile to the Macdonalds , along with 120 of his soldiers , whom the Macdonalds had been entertaining for the previous fortnight , suddenly fell upon their hosts and butchered them , shooting Macdonald himself in the back and killing nearly 70 men , women and children . |
| 20 | These findings may account for the previous reports that premature eye opening accelerates optic nerve myelination , whereas dark rearing delays it . |
| 21 | The analyses are used to look for patterns in the types of information available from stimuli which may account for the previous risk and recognition results and the relationships between risk and recognition . |
| 22 | Meanwhile I continued the strategy I had been following for the previous two terms : feigning compliance with the authorities and responding co-operatively to their apparent concern , while continuing to eat minimally and to purge in secret . |