Example sentences of "[prep] the previous two " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the particular psychological shock involved in this one arose from the fact that for the previous two centuries family ties among the landholding classes of England and Scotland and inter-marriage between the royal families had made relations between the two countries very close . |
| 2 | A week after Chapman 's resignation George Cripps also left the club , after handing over the books for the previous two years to Mr J. W. Bromley , a former director . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Indeed , as administrator Myra Hickey points out , when the Labour council was elected in 1986 one of its manifesto commitments had been to bring back the festival which had been absent for the previous two years owing to the council reclaiming its original site . |
| 5 | My mother happened to see the woman who 'd been my daughter 's form teacher for the previous two years , who was known to interfere . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Every one of the European allies by whose side she had fought against Nazi Germany for the previous two years was now defeated and occupied . |
| 8 | The total was more than the combined figures for the previous two months . |
| 9 | He opened by expressing his gratitude to all present that the discussions during the previous two days , ‘ though at times exhilaratingly frank ’ , had been conducted in a spirit of friendship and the desire to see good prevail . |
| 10 | BA argued that it needed to acquire its smaller rival in order to be able to compete more effectively with the mega-airlines that had emerged , particularly in the US , during the previous two years . |
| 11 | Yet in 1988 , the management consortium sold the company to Volvo of Sweden for £15 million claiming that the business had been restructured during the previous two years , but that the ‘ key to success in this business is to be a world player ’ . |
| 12 | The expulsion of the Turks from Vojvodina gave an opportunity for the Serbs of that area , many of whom were descendants of the refugees who had fled across the Danube in front of the advancing Ottomans during the previous two or three centuries , to develop their national culture in a freer atmosphere than had existed under Islamic rule . |
| 13 | Bank Assistants can feel aggrieved and betrayed that the Bank declared in the Labour Court that their claim was debarred by the National Pay Agreement , the P.E.S.P. At no time during the previous two years was the P.E.S.P. ever mentioned by the Bank . |
| 14 | At the end of May 1989 a new supreme representative body , the 2,250-member Congress of People 's Deputies , held its inaugural session after being elected in three rounds of voting during the previous two months . |
| 15 | Bombings and shootings had claimed an estimated 37 dead and 324 injured during the previous two weeks , and were thought partly responsible for the low turnout , an estimated 45.85 per cent of the 14,000,000 eligible voters . |
| 16 | no more than the embodiment of administrative arrangements which would give order to a confused system and some of which had been recommended and accepted as desirable during the previous two decades . |
| 17 | A high prior recurrence rate ( two or more episodes of duodenal ulceration during the previous two years ) ; |
| 18 | The number of duodenal ulcer episodes that had occurred during the previous two years was noted . |
| 19 | The mean age of the patients was 48 years ( SD 13 years ) and the mean age at which the first duodenal ulcer had been diagnosed was 36 ( SD 13 ) years with a mean disease duration of 12 ( SD 10 ) years and 3 ( SD 2 ) ulcer relapses during the previous two years . |
| 20 | The two week healing rates for patients with one , two , three , four , and five or more recurrences during the previous two years were 42.3% , 40.5% , 40.6% , 34.6% , and 40.6% respectively . |
| 21 | With an uncertain outlook for nineteen ninety three from our point of view it 's absolutely crucial to get costs in line we had obviously done cost-cutting during the previous two years , but we really needed to be sure that if revenues were not going to increase , we should n't wait for a recovery to bail us out . |
| 22 | The process of abandonment of the Czechoslovak federation had been gathering pace through the previous two months [ see pp. 38944-45 ; 39015 ] . |
| 23 | My final term there seemed rather uneventful after the previous two , and only Renaissance Anne showed any signs of concern about my impending departure . |
| 24 | During the debate of the previous two years , it seemed that LEAs would be asked to identify a number of measures to be applied to schools which would allow the wider public to assess the progress of a given school , year on year , and the differences between schools in the area . |
| 25 | A collective agreement ( i.e. with one or more trades unions ) effectively giving the same rights as in one or other of the previous two options to the members of those trades unions ( but not , it would seem , to all employees ) |
| 26 | When debt and equity securities fall into neither of the previous two categories , they would be classified as securities available for sale and reported at fair value , but any unrealised gains and losses would be excluded from earnings and reported as a separate component of shareholders ' equity . |
| 27 | It was better to work out what she believed about the events of the previous two hours before she shared it with Marlin . |
| 28 | They are ways which , in the light of the previous two hundred years of intellectual engagement with these areas , seem to me to be the most fruitful . |
| 29 | So far I have discussed the different criminologies of the previous two centuries with little reference to the problem of the concept of ‘ crime ’ itself : Worse , I have sometimes used ‘ crime ’ and ‘ deviance ’ interchangeably — though I hope I have only done this where the argument has happened to apply equally to both . |
| 30 | In the course of the previous two generations the junior branch of the Nevilles , Warwick and his father Salisbury , had established an important northern affinity within the three lordships . |