Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [art] previous " in BNC.
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| 1 | Amiss suspected they had been hammering the port harder than ever the previous night . |
| 2 | Of the 383 state production plans , 148 had been unable to meet their target — more than double the previous figure of 65 . |
| 3 | Mal Reilly 's squad pulled in record tour profits from their 17-match programme of £233,645 , more than double the previous best of £93,282 in 1974 . |
| 4 | Recurrent spending for 1990/91 was targeted at TSh160,000 million , a 35 per cent rise ( although inflation stood at 30 per cent for 1989 ) ; development spending , at TSh46,000 million was more than double the previous year 's level of TSh22,000 million . |
| 5 | The higher rate of payment was set at more than twice the previous fee for night visits . |
| 6 | There had been violent clashes between police and nationalist demonstrators in the mid-1950s in Derry city centre and only the previous June the Connolly commemoration had been banned . |
| 7 | And only the previous week the head of the Irish College in Rome — a widely respected Monsignor had said that illegal resistance was the natural protection against immoral laws and that ‘ the Catholics of Ireland rightly disowned what force made them endure ’ . |
| 8 | Yes , the tour was definitely looking up a little , and only the previous evening she had written a card to her daughter to say that in spite of a death and a theft and a murder she was ‘ beginning to make one or two very nice friends on the trip ’ . |
| 9 | Calvin had set his time at altitude , always beneficial in the ‘ explosive ’ events , and indeed the previous record of 9.95 seconds by another American , Jim Hines , had also been set high up in Mexico City . |
| 10 | All asthmatics had discrete wheezing and either a previous diagnosis of asthma or documented reversible airways obstruction of at least 20% . |
| 11 | Asthma was defined as discrete episodes of wheezing and either a previous diagnosis of asthma or documented reversible airway obstruction as determined by a 20% improvement in forced expiratory volume in one second ( FEV 1 ) after bronchodilator administration or a 20% decrease in FEV 1 after methacholine bronchoprovocation , performed in accordance with the American Thoracic Society guidelines . |
| 12 | British embarrassment was the greater since only the previous year the Prince of Wales had married Alexandra , daughter of the King of Denmark . |
| 13 | The adrenalin which had been pumping into her bloodstream since early the previous day had burned up all her reserves of energy . |