Example sentences of "[pron] in previous [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the first time in such talks the Sudanese People 's Liberation Army ( SPLA ) , which in previous weeks had been losing ground to government forces throughout southern Sudan , was represented by two independent delegations : the so-called Torit group led by Col. John Garang , and a splinter group supporting Lam Akol , based at the town of Nasir [ for SPLA split see p. 38426 ] . |
| 2 | And the fact that he seemed to accept the failure of his play , which in previous years would have depressed and unnerved him , is further evidence that he was now a more sanguine man . |
| 3 | A survey by the National Association of Head Teachers conducted in 1987 found that half of the schools questioned were using voluntary funds to supplement their spending on materials and equipment which in previous years had been provided entirely out of local authority funds . |
| 4 | The report , which in previous years was called British Lifestyles , shows the trends set over the last ten years and predicts changes in the next decade . |
| 5 | We have included in our proposal this year twenty thousand revenue effects of a hundred thousand pounds capital bid on traffic calming and other similar measures , something which is very popular around the city , as long as you ask people what they want first and which in previous years we put forward as a revenue bid . |
| 6 | Drinks before dinner are spent in bizarre oscillation between an Essex taxi-driver advancing his theories on the need for a return of the ‘ glasshouse ’ for young offenders , and a syrupy smooth young Etonian on the Turnbull and Asser wing of the party who in previous times might have glided effortlessly into a constituency . |
| 7 | The technical accomplishments of modern medicine mean that doctors can often save the life of someone who in previous ages would have died . |
| 8 | The high street stores , and even the designers , are finding there is great value in maintaining , shapes , colours and styles that worked for them in previous seasons . |
| 9 | She also had the costs of the case awarded against her — wiping out virtually all of the £334,000-worth of damages won by her in previous court actions against the press . |
| 10 | Apart from this final item — a charge which District Audit assure me is not made by most other banks and which was not made by yourselves in previous years — I have been very happy with the standard of service provided by Natwest Bank . |
| 11 | I was trying to do , single-handed , what in previous days would have been accomplished only by several women in a family all working together . |