Example sentences of "the previous [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She began to see why the previous nurses had all thought him worth chasing after . |
| 2 | The fund 's dividends are paid quarterly and the third interim dividend is being held at the previous 1.2p , making a same-again 3.6p for the nine months . |
| 3 | Booked by the hour , the previous occupants were sitting by the table watching their six-year-old child poke a cue at the remaining balls . |
| 4 | Some 13 tons of iron scrap dumped within by the previous occupants had to be removed . |
| 5 | It takes as its baseline the previous attainment of the pupil and indicates what progress has been subsequently made . |
| 6 | The rest of the 50 minutes should be used to look back on the previous lectures and notes on the same topic . |
| 7 | How do adjustments in the rate of capital accumulation alter the results on the incidence of taxation derived in the previous Lectures ? |
| 8 | Throughout the previous Lectures we have stressed the importance of the assumptions made concerning the structure of the economy . |
| 9 | Some 15 months earlier , however , a meeting had been held at the same spot , and after that meeting , a disturbance took place at the training centre ( although the report of the case gives no indication of the scale or the cause of the previous disturbance ) . |
| 10 | The previous index , based on the pay position in December , caused some surprise with an acceleration in the rate of increases . |
| 11 | In the former case , LIFESPAN PMR will return the user to the previous index page . |
| 12 | The user will then be returned to the previous index page . |
| 13 | After completion of each option , the user is automatically taken back to the previous index page . |
| 14 | When you do all the sums and move all the money from pocket to pocket it looks as if there is an increase of between 2 to 2.5 per cent and that is almost the difference between the previous inflation forecast of 3.5 per cent and the present inflation forecast of 5.75 per cent . |
| 15 | This is a formidable task even for a human navigator , but as we have found out in the past few years , the bees ' trigonometric adjustments are perfectly mindless , depending only on a memory of the Sun 's azimuth relative to the bee 's goal on the previous trip ( or day ) and an extrapolation of the Sun 's current rate of azimuth movement . |
| 16 | Only forty miles ahead of the previous sighting lay the beginnings of the great Pennine range , the backbone of England . |
| 17 | To begin with , her musical language is loosely , sometime unabashedly , tonal , and shows evidence of her varied background : Spain , Russia and France all peep through the passage-work. the last two Sonatas inhabit a sterner , more chromatic world , but the vigour of the counterpoint ensures that the music maintains the momentum of the previous works . |
| 18 | When this granule is dissolved in a drop of water , and 99 drops of alcohol are added to it , the next LM2 solution contains a 1/500th x 100 = 1/50,000th of the previous LM 1 liquid . |
| 19 | between persons who , by reason of the previous marriage of one of them , are related in a way corresponding to one of the relationships above mentioned . |
| 20 | Although basic information on those remarrying can be obtained from marriage records there are no details of the children involved or duration of the previous marriage ( Haskey , 1987 ) . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The description given seems to fit the previous attack on the first of June , when a 20 year old student was raped in the toilets in Magdalen Street . |
| 23 | The attacker this time is described as having blond to gingery wavy hair , and it 's a similar description to the previous attack . |
| 24 | In the West Cumbria project , funded by DOE , evaluation of existing geological records and mine plans has enabled solid and drift maps of the Coal Measures and Lower Carboniferous sequences to be compiled at 1:10 000 and 1:25 000 in more detail than was possible during the previous survey almost 60 years ago . |
| 25 | Improved business optimism , reported in the previous survey , has not been sustained and expectations of rising business volumes were not fulfilled . |
| 26 | In the previous survey in January 1991 Rentokil was placed 11th overall . |
| 27 | This is noticeably more than in the previous European series from Nottingham ( 14/100000/year ) , Bristol ( 7/ 100000/year ) , Göttingen ( 21/100000/year ) , Glasgow ( 15/100000/year ) , Copenhagen ( 28/ 100000/year ) , and even more than in the previous survey from Western Australia ( 60/ 100000/year ) . |
| 28 | A survey in 1992 showed that chough numbers had increased by a third since the previous survey 10 years earlier ; 1,247 pairs were counted , compared with 950 pairs in 1982 . |
| 29 | This survey shows that firms in both the North and South of the country report greater improvement than in the previous survey and have become more optimistic about their own prospects . |
| 30 | Profit margins in export sales also widened , with Scottish exporters , having shown the poorest performance with a zero net balance in the previous survey , now leading the way at 22 per cent . |