Example sentences of "over the previous [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he also knew it had been destroyed ; like Lebanon and the 40,000 who had died there over the previous 17 months . |
| 2 | Consider , again , the percentage of respondents who believe that the economy got worse over the previous twelve months ( column 1 in figure 9.5 ) . |
| 3 | AI recorded however 63 ‘ disappearances ’ between 1 August 1991 and 29 February 1992 , compared with 382 reported ‘ disappearances ’ over the previous twelve months . |
| 4 | But among the more lowly paid members of staff there was a feeling that the sacrifices that they had been urged to make over the previous twelve months — the constraints and pay-freezes and appeals to their better nature — had not been matched by a tempering of Branson 's acquisitive spirit . |
| 5 | When I joined they had just published The Thorn Birds so Futura was on a real high — it had expanded considerably over the previous 18 months . ’ |
| 6 | Other delegates included the Italian Prime Minister , Giulio Andreotti , and a French junior minister , the Financial Times commenting that the Libyan leader 's new-found international respectability was the reward for his decision to return to more conventional foreign and economic policies over the previous 18 months . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , it came after a series of disagreements with the government over the previous 18 months . |
| 8 | At the end of C.A. 1991 it was recorded that over the previous 18 years we had raised over £210,000 for the cause . |
| 9 | The plan called for investments totalling US$6,831 million — a 56 per cent increase over the previous five-year period — and an annual 5 per cent growth rate . |
| 10 | Their long folk memories recalled other attempts to produce native silk over the previous hundred years — and how all of them had failed . |
| 11 | Such a political and economic environment had enabled the USA to increase its productive capacity over the previous hundred and fifty years to become the world 's greatest economic power . |
| 12 | Drug traffickers had also killed more than 20 police officers in separate incidents over the previous 10 days , in retaliation for the October death of Brance Muñoz Mosquera , believed to be the Medellín drug cartel 's military commander [ see p. 39138 ] . |
| 13 | The patients fasted at 0900 having not taken any drugs which affect gastric secretion or motility over the previous 10 days . |
| 14 | Brockway was writing in the context of a prison population for England and Wales that had declined by two-thirds over the previous fifty years . |
| 15 | In evidence to the Environment Committee in 1986 the following report was given on the record of the Church Commissioners over the previous seventeen years , during which the future of 1,053 redundant churches was decided . |
| 16 | According to new figures from the Central Statistical Office , consumers increased their debts by £13m in February having paid off £505m worth of debt over the previous six months . |
| 17 | After investing £15 million in a variety of different schemes over the previous six years , and just when developments were looking promising , the government 's funding ( channelled through the Energy Technology Support Unit , part of the Harwell-based UK Atomic Energy Authority ) was cut . |
| 18 | 1991 , 27 , 1151 ) failed to mention that the special exhibition on the work of Sir William Henry Perkin was in addition to a poster exhibition that had been touring Essex and east London over the previous six months . |
| 19 | IBM Personal Systems Business Unit Europe/Middle East/Africa says it had record volume of sales in the first quarter of this year , and points to Dataquest figures suggesting that it outshipped its nearest competitor by 66% during the last quarter of 1992 and the first quarter of 1993 — gaining 4% in market share over the previous six months ; the company also said it reorganised its manufacturing and distribution operations at its Greenock , Scotland , plant , cutting distribution costs for its ValuePoint and ThinkPad brands by more than 65% , cutting its inventory by 17% since the end of 1992 ; this magnitude of savings will also be realised for the PS/2 and PS/1 lines this year . |
| 20 | Although he refused to speak against Gates , who had supported his election , Bush announced that Attorney General Thornburgh had begun a national review of the 15,000 complaints made to the federal government concerning acts of police brutality over the previous six years . |
| 21 | Maza had gained a high reputation for leading the fight against " narco-terrorism " over the previous six years and he also claimed several successes in rescuing the kidnap victims of the drug cartels . |
| 22 | Rodríguez had refused to attend the final session on June 18 of the National Constituent Assembly , which over the previous six months had drafted the Constitution , because of the Assembly 's approval of a " transitory clause " on June 15 which ensured that he was included in a general constitutional ban on presidents standing for re-election . |
| 23 | During the past 10 months of follow up this patient , who had bled on 11 occasions over the previous six months , has not required further admission with recurrent haemorrhage . |
| 24 | The share and rate of profit and the accumulation rate more or less stabilized at the very high levels established over the previous six years . |
| 25 | The exciting promise John had revealed over the previous eighteen months was rewarded by a place on the England tour of Australasia in June 1991 where he demonstrated his capacity to excite the crowd and to bemuse the opposition by featuring prominently in all four matches , thereby staking a claim for a regular inclusion in the national side . |
| 26 | Many sales had been left with high unsold percentages over the previous two weeks , though some had been successful . |
| 27 | The consequence of the Knoyles ' poverty and the Hutchings ' absenteeism over the previous two centuries was that the Manor House had a miraculous escape from Georgian owners wanting to keep up with the times . |
| 28 | In the build up to her first ever world tour , the now seasoned campaigner decided it was time to kill the cutesy girl-next-door and reflect the reality of what had happened to her over the previous two years . |
| 29 | This gives an indication of the ambient blood glucose level over the previous two or three months and is the best single indicator we have at present of glycaemic control . |
| 30 | Over the previous two seasons , the clashes of the first teams have resulted in thrashings for Haslemere . |