Example sentences of "[pron] for the previous [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was certainly a surprise to Watney 's , which for the previous four months had been planning its own takeover bid for Truman 's , so that it could close the high-cost Mann 's site . |
| 2 | As Shevardnadze put it in a speech to foreign ministry staff in 1987 , they represented a country which for the previous fifteen years had been ‘ more and more losing its position as one of the leading industrially developed countries ’ . |
| 3 | They chose Milan as the venue because of the presence of two schools which for the previous ten years had pursued the Pure Oral System , or the German System as it was more commonly known , and to help to give the Congress credibility , they chose as the President one of the schools ' headmasters , while the other school 's headmaster was Secretary . |
| 4 | At 07.30 , the Allied artillery , which for the previous 65 minutes had been firing at its greatest intensity , lifted . |
| 5 | She explained that Lazaris came through to her via a medium who went into a trance , and had been helping her for the previous eight years . |
| 6 | Waxing , a more traditional English technique employed by those unable or unwilling to undertake french polishing , ousted the latter by the 1920s , having run alongside it for the previous forty years . |