Example sentences of "for 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 . |