Example sentences of "over the previous " in BNC.
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| 1 | The conversation was wide-ranging , but gradually I told her the full story of what had happened to me over the previous year or so . |
| 2 | Movement from the centralities of ‘ real polising ’ in uniform , via the CID , into the marginal fringes of an extended period of drug squad work , had a profound influence on the absolute tenets of policing I had absorbed over the previous decade . |
| 3 | Many sales had been left with high unsold percentages over the previous two weeks , though some had been successful . |
| 4 | The government had also noted the proliferation of schismatic religious movements over the previous few years . |
| 5 | It so happens that this rate is exactly the output of the building industry , averaged over the previous three years . |
| 6 | Or does it mean that if total incomes rise by 4 per cent and total profits by 5 per cent , all profits are subject to a levy of one-fifth of their increase over the previous period ? |
| 7 | This is significant , given that many commentators in 1983 thought that the policies of the Conservative and Labour parties were further apart than at any time over the previous thirty years . |
| 8 | Their long folk memories recalled other attempts to produce native silk over the previous hundred years — and how all of them had failed . |
| 9 | Berlin room rates soared by 26% in 1990 and occupancy rates jumped by 9.5 percentage points over the previous year to 80.95% . |
| 10 | The investment by 3i represented a 73% increase over the previous year , which ended at 31 March 1990 . |
| 11 | Arrears in 1988/9 increased by a third over the previous year to more than £450 million . |
| 12 | Though they admitted a whole series of assaults over the previous three years , they disputed their frequency , he said in his closing speech . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | In the past financial year companies listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange ( TSE ) raised a staggering ¥25 trillion through various forms of equity financing — up 65% over the previous year . |
| 15 | At the first meeting in the department I did what every other Transport Minister appears to have done over the previous ten years : I hired Professor Sir Alec Cairncross to advise me . |
| 16 | He would have preferred a special health-service pay factor , but had to settle for an above-average offer to the nurses , who most certainly were the priority group , having fallen badly behind over the previous ten years . |
| 17 | Over the previous twenty years we had become preoccupied with structural arguments about regions and areas when we should have been concerned about how the service was run . |
| 18 | The fact that France had already received the lion 's share of new European component investment over the previous five years was beside the point . |
| 19 | These more loyal long service employees had an intuitive feeling that the division would ultimately go out of business in the UK if it continued to operate in the way it had behaved over the previous ten years . |
| 20 | She noted , she said with a pained expression , that output from the UK Vehicle Division of United Motors had been falling steadily over the previous ten years . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Several of the planks , including those that had given way under Harry 's weight , had without that beam 's support simply been hanging out in space , resting like a seesaw over the previous beam but otherwise supported only by the tight fit of each plank against the next . |
| 23 | The Scots had compensated for the lack of indigenous wealth by developing a tradition , over the previous century and a half , of regarding themselves as far more powerful , more important , more interesting than their remote geographic position and comparative poverty actually entitled them to be . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | My Canon Typestar typewriter occasionally forgot to type the letter ‘ R ’ and its successor , a Typestar 90 , would sometimes forget to transport the next line , thus printing a new line over the previous one . |
| 26 | Bimec turned in net profits of £2.4m during Q3 of 1991 , a rise of 78 per cent over the previous year , on a turnover of f£53.2m ( £24m ) . |
| 27 | Instead of a simple wind diagram , he had ‘ back-projections ’ of the actual path of the rain-bearing wind over the previous 48 hours . |
| 28 | ‘ A specter is haunting Europe and North America — the specter of widespread forest decline , ’ wrote a respected US Institute as United States researchers reported that , in a survey of 17 states from Maine to Missouri , several species showed ‘ a systematic , regionally scaled and sustained decline in growth ’ over the previous 20 — 25 years . |
| 29 | In 1988 it was calculated that over £16 billion had been spent by the Authority over the previous 30 years , about half provided by the Department of Energy or its predecessors . |
| 30 | 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 . |