Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] in the previous [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maori mothers were significantly more likely to have smoked in the previous two weeks than non-Maori mothers ( χ 2 =201 , df=3 , p<0.001 ) ( table IV ) . |
| 2 | The Chief Officer needed to contribute to this work and to help the Council maintain the influence in higher education it had developed in the previous six years , and to develop public awareness of the Council 's aims and activities . |
| 3 | What sins , what meannesses , what grave errors I had committed in the previous ten years had been forgiven me . |
| 4 | Raphael ( 1982 ) provides qualitative descriptions of the experiences of thirty-five children aged between two and eight years in twenty families in which either the mother or father had died in the previous two to eight weeks . |
| 5 | At any rate , so far as Zuwaya are concerned , it was those men who were fifty to sixty years old in 1979 who had created in the previous three decades the marked differences in wealth which did exist . |
| 6 | It is worth noting , however , that Richards 's concept of poetry is similar to that which we have encountered in the previous two chapters , in that poetry for him is simply shorthand for literature that has aesthetic value ; his belief was that the value of literature as a whole lay entirely in its use of the emotive function of language . |
| 7 | Some of the names who have appeared in the previous two decades include internationals Rob Saunders , Denis McBride , Peter Russell , Niall Malone , and Don Whittle as well as Ulster 's Andy Adair , Stephen McKinty , Stephen and Andy Matchett and Mark Wylie . |