Example sentences of "[prep] [art] previous [adj] [noun pl] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new Headmaster was Mr. Christopher Herman Gilkes , an Oxford graduate and for the previous six years a Housemaster at Uppingham . |
| 2 | In response , the guardians pointed out that for the previous thirty-four years the infirmary had received patients suffering from the same class of disease as William Joseph C. from the workhouse , in accordance with the arrangement whereby the guardians were currently paying £202 per annum to the infirmary . |
| 3 | For the previous few years the soap factory had been losing business because of imports of synthetic detergents , mainly through Lever Bros , the local branch of Unilever . |
| 4 | On the journalists ' evidence , if the directives had been in force during the previous twelve months the effect on air time would have been minimal . |
| 5 | In the course of the previous two generations the junior branch of the Nevilles , Warwick and his father Salisbury , had established an important northern affinity within the three lordships . |
| 6 | In the course of the previous two generations the junior branch of the Nevilles , Warwick and his father Salisbury , had established an important northern affinity within the three lordships . |
| 7 | From the previous two sections the following points have , perhaps , already become apparent to most readers . |
| 8 | In the previous five years the advice was published , but this year the Department of Education and Science kept it confidential . |
| 9 | In the previous six months the EC 's trade deficit with Japan had increased markedly after falling steadily since 1988 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Over the previous two years the lower-school IS work had been restructured to incorporate new elements and an increased use of project work . |
| 12 | Over the previous 12 months the portfolio underperformed its expected rate of return by just over 2.5 per cent . |