Example sentences of "[adj] the previous [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The killing of Estrada , who had been captured but released unharmed the previous month [ see p. 37372 ] , was believed to be the work of the Medellín drug cartel ; however , as in the previous killings of three leading presidential candidates [ see pp. 36844 ; 37312 ; 37371-72 ] , right-wing paramilitary groups were also suspected . |
| 2 | Daly started his first round at 1pm , and finished it at 7.30 the previous evening . |
| 3 | It had felt strange the previous night going to bed without wearing his underpants ; but this odd suit felt even stranger . |
| 4 | She had been found guilty the previous day on charges of conspiracy to kidnap , and as accessory after the fact to assault . |
| 5 | This marked a striking change from the initial view recorded by G -5 the previous day that " No Jugoslavs … should be returned to Jugoslavia " later amended to allow volunteers to return . |
| 6 | He would later swear that he had cautioned me about this the previous night . |
| 7 | During his first official visit to Bonn on June 12-13 Soviet Foreign Minister Aleksandr Bessmertnykh had confirmed that Soviet nuclear weapons were still on German territory , although Soviet Defence Minister Marshal Dmitry Yazov had denied this the previous week . |
| 8 | He had been up half the previous night upon a quite different case , and all this night upon this , which had only just become a case , and his , after all . |
| 9 | A price of 200 francs CFA per kg. was set for the 1989/90 season , half the previous season 's level . |
| 10 | Headline overcame the difficulties of its market — the weakness of the retail scene , and less than robust sales through wholesalers to supermarkets and other non-traditional outlets — not only by a strong new book publishing programme , with 385 new titles compared with 300 the previous year , but also by a cautious approach to overheads . |
| 11 | Attention might particularly be drawn to Council Decision 90/141 on the attainment of progressive convergence of economic policies and performance during stage one of EMU , and Council Decision 90/142 amending the previous legislation on the Committee of Governors of the Central Banks of the Member States of the European Community . |
| 12 | He would be killed even if he did n't hit a rock — though there had been a far greater profusion of rocks visible the previous evening . |
| 13 | In 1991 the previous year 's ceiling of 23.65 million b/d was rolled over for another year , but no country quotas were set . |
| 14 | Unemployment levels had improved , falling to 9.7 per cent from 10.6 the previous year , while inflation had increased to 3.1 per cent in 1989 ( 1.2 per cent in 1988 ) but it was still considered to be under control . |
| 15 | One of the notebook crowd climbed aboard and came into the dining car , inviting anyone who had seen anyone or anything suspicious the previous evening to please unbutton , but of course no one had , or no one was saying , because otherwise the whole train would have known about it by now . |
| 16 | The store development programme was stepped up last year with seven new store openings , compared with only three the previous year , bringing the total at year end to 79 . |
| 17 | She had been up until close to three the previous night , putting the finishing touches to the preparations for this evening 's grand dinner . |
| 18 | State expenditure on agriculture was set to rise to dollars 294,000,000 , from dollars 230,000,000 the previous year . |
| 19 | Despite being thrown from water with a temperature of 19°C and a pH of 7 into water of 24°C and a pH of 7.9 the previous evening and then virtually desiccated , they were all feeding later that day . |
| 20 | Her cheeks , which had been so white the previous evening , now had colour , and instead of sagging with exhaustion she radiated the extraordinary vitality that had so attracted me at our first meeting on the Cutty Sark . |
| 21 | The department 's ‘ O ’ Level results had been very good the previous year and he had had a letter of congratulation from the Assistant Education Officer responsible for the school . |
| 22 | My modest er surprise at the beginning Mr Mayor was purely in recognition actually of my er colleagues presentation , bearing in mind all the previous criticism about being specific . |
| 23 | Mr Haselhurst said : ‘ I think on all the previous evidence the last thing that will happen now will be a fall in unemployment . ’ |
| 24 | It took only minutes under the hot jets to wash the last dreamy remnants of sleep away , and then once again all the previous night 's fears came rushing back . |
| 25 | Ask a bookdealer how his trade has changed over the last twenty years , and you 'll get an answer worthy of a merchant banker : volumes have multiplied ( hardly surprising : there have been as many books published since 1960 as in all the previous history of publishing ) , margins have been squeezed ; competition has grown fiercer , and specialisation finer ; women and Japanese have become crucial forces with which to reckon . |
| 26 | I woke early , and when I looked out of the window , I saw two men examining our boat , but I decided not to wake Herbert or Startop , who needed their rest after rowing all the previous day . |
| 27 | This document , prepared for the commission by Dr L.S. Ettre , considers all the previous nomenclature systems mentioned above as well as three publications by Ettre dealing with chromatography nomenclature . |
| 28 | By and large all the previous Guitarist Show exhibitors are still there but the remit of the event has been broadened to incorporate recording , hi-tech , drums and relevant musicians ' services ( including the Performing Right Society and the MU ) , so now you can bring the whole band along to visit . |
| 29 | Indeed , Arnold 's claim that ‘ the main enemy is deafness ’ totally obscures all the previous research on the cognitive functioning of deaf children and the nature of child language . |
| 30 | This consolidates the document into its current form and throws out all the previous rubbish . |