Example sentences of "[art] previous [adj] years [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the previous five years the advice was published , but this year the Department of Education and Science kept it confidential . |
| 2 | Over the previous two years the lower-school IS work had been restructured to incorporate new elements and an increased use of project work . |
| 3 | The new Headmaster was Mr. Christopher Herman Gilkes , an Oxford graduate and for the previous six years a Housemaster at Uppingham . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |