Example sentences of "[vb pp] during the previous " in BNC.
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| 1 | Early on , she demanded from each member a list of the people they had consulted during the previous three months . |
| 2 | Intimation had been received during the previous year that they were considering paying over to the Official Trustee of Charitable Funds the sum of £12,000 , the interest on which would be sufficient to maintain their endowment of £300 . |
| 3 | Fundamentally , roses are as much shrubs as any others in the garden and , like them , divide broadly into two categories as far as pruning is concerned ; those that flower in spring and summer on wood developed during the previous growth period ( i.e. last year ) , and those that flower , necessarily a little later , from mid summer on , upon wood that has developed during the current season . |
| 4 | On conviction , the court has to set a value on the drug assets earned during the previous six years , and a confiscation order . |
| 5 | The authorities had claimed during the previous month that the courts had " basically completed " all trials connected with the 1989 " counter-revolutionary rebellion " . |
| 6 | Increased tension with India over Kashmir [ see pp. 37377-78 ; 37451-52 ] ensured that the defence budget was increased to Rs63,300 million in 1990-91 after it had been effectively frozen during the previous budget period . |
| 7 | It obtained an injunction ordering enclosures made during the previous twenty years , amounting to nearly 3,000 acres , to be thrown down , and restraining further enclosures . |
| 8 | Azerbaijani officials claimed that the attacks on the border were the consequence of frustration of local residents that they had received no response to demands presented during the previous month for freer access to their fellow Azerbaijanis in northern Iran ( numbering up to 14,000,000 — twice the number of Soviet Azerbaijanis ) , and to rich agricultural land given over to border defences . |
| 9 | William Cecil blamed the devastating plague of 1563 on the overcrowding of the central area and ordered that each house which had been subdivided during the previous year should be restored to occupation by a single family only and that recently-arrived lodgers should be removed , but such measures did not have a lasting effect . |
| 10 | The Edinburgh Evening News picked up the point during the dispute and commented that " the old story of the men 's dislike to machinery appears in this dispute just as it was with the engineers " , 25 Whatever the reason or reasons , the men 's unwillingness to handle the machines led directly to the situation of the late 1900s in which Edinburgh master printers were trying to counter the threat of London and southern firms by combining both the employment of women and the use of machines , thus posing a double threat of a new kind to the male compositor , and inspiring a more determined resistance from the latter than had been seen during the previous thirty-odd years . |
| 11 | A characteristic of automatic performance is an apparent loss of memory for what has been done during the previous few moments . |
| 12 | Keep a record of how you spend your time and what you 've managed to get done during the previous week . |
| 13 | Everything that he had written during the previous four years on the overriding need to oppose fascism , on the need to defend nation states through the creation of a Strong system of alliances based on collective security , and on the central role of the Soviet Union in promoting peace and stability , all was reduced to the level of absurdity by the Nazi-Soviet pact , the invasion of Poland and subsequently the war in Finland . |
| 14 | The figure represented an increase of more than 70 per cent over the total amount of aid granted during the previous five years . |
| 15 | The number of duodenal ulcer episodes that had occurred during the previous two years was noted . |
| 16 | The Type II disease occurs in yearlings , usually in late winter or spring following their first grazing season and results from the maturation of larvae ingested during the previous autumn and subsequently arrested in their development at the early fourth larval stage . |
| 17 | Eighty-six vagrants had been accommodated during the previous fortnight , and seventy-nine of these were men , with five women and two children . |
| 18 | L2164 was set on fire , having already been damaged during the previous attack on 7th. , and was ultimately sunk after efforts had been made to tow it ashore . |
| 19 | 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 ’ . |
| 20 | This was over 500 fewer opioid users than was found during the previous year 's survey of ten agencies , and there is still a reduction in numbers of 375 if we compare the figures obtained from the five agencies contacted in both surveys . |
| 21 | Within weeks of their meeting in November 1640 , the MPs of the Long Parliament launched a full-scale attack upon Laud and his Arminian innovations , and throughout the country those who had objected to the physical changes introduced during the previous decade began to destroy altars , rails , and stained glass . |
| 22 | They requested that the advantages for the Gospel gained during the previous years should not be lost and that the King should support moves for unity amongst God 's people . |
| 23 | The group sessions , which ran for 90 minutes each week , opened with the clients discussing what they had eaten during the previous week . |
| 24 | If listing particulars have been issued during the previous year some of the contents requirements for the new listing particulars are relaxed . |
| 25 | What had happened during the previous 30 months to cause the right hon. Gentleman to change his apparent convictions of 30 years ? |
| 26 | In March 1924 the presence of 198 inmates was noted ; the number of vagrants admitted during the previous fortnight had risen to 437 . |
| 27 | Some students find it best to set aside a regular time each week ( perhaps at the weekend ) to file all the notes taken during the previous week . |
| 28 | This chapter continues the analysis of consumer behaviour commenced during the previous chapter . |
| 29 | Nor , normally , can an accounting reference period be extended if it has already been extended during the previous five years . |
| 30 | The crisis within the coalition had arisen during the previous week when Reynolds on Oct. 27 accused O'Malley of " dishonest " testimony to a parliamentary inquiry into fraud in the beef export industry as regards Reynolds 's handling of export credits for Iraq while Industry and Commerce Minister in 1987-88 . |