Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] the previous " in BNC.

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1 Increased tension with India over Kashmir [ see pp. 37377-78 ; 37451-52 ] ensured that the defence budget was increased to Rs63,300 million in 1990-91 after it had been effectively frozen during the previous budget period .
2 Joseph was alarmed by Monteith 's message , and bewildered that he could have been so misunderstood at the previous council .
3 The roses which had been so cherished by the previous owner of Hillmarden House , Gillian Chadwick , needed dead-heading .
4 This Hawking radiation has its origin in a quantum effect hitherto neglected in the previous discussion of black holes , namely that the vacuum is in a state of constant activity because of the creation and subsequent annihilation of particle-anti-particle pairs .
5 It has been much improved over the previous version and humanized , to boot .
6 The second edition of Lewis 's ‘ Topographical Dictionary ’ in 1840 speaks of how the town had been greatly improved during the previous 40 years .
7 Dysmap works by solving a large number of simultaneous equations at specified time intervals , using the information already calculated for the previous time interval as the basis for the current series of calculations .
8 Similarly , the starting point of sentence ( 3 ) , that is an assumption already explained in the previous sentence .
9 Between these calls to NEW , we link the variable we have just gotten to the previous one to form a dynamic data structure
10 As we have already seen in the previous chapter , this conflict has also been reinforced by the social changes which have occurred in rural areas , so that disputes concerning environmental preservation often coincide with local — newcomer , rural — urban , and agricultural — industrial divisions in the rural population .
11 Bubble-gum sub- heads like ‘ Material-ismo ’ , ‘ The Beer and Sausage Minuet ’ , ‘ Rusty Tracks and Hotel Love- Sounds ’ , may grab the millions who have already bought into the previous Toffler output .
12 The operation , run by the police , Army and Air Force , was to last 60 days and was to result in the eviction of all garimpeiros from the 2,000-sq km reserve which had been progressively invaded over the previous two to three years .
13 The techniques for handing , displaying , interpreting , transferring and reformulating information already introduced at the previous levels will be invoked for more advanced tasks .
14 Paragraph 12 pronounced the key requirement : the Government 's duty was , it said , to advocate a policy which would provide the best possible foundation for a further reduction in inflation , already reduced in the previous year from 17 per cent to around 8 per cent ; an increase in jobs and output ; and an improved standard of living .
15 The Financial Times of Jan. 28 noted that the co-operative and private sector was already reeling from the previous week 's monetary reform , having " relied heavily on the large cash economy and soaring prices to fuel its takeoff " .
16 Some of the present government 's high technology spending is being inflated by including money already earmarked by the previous government .
17 Despite the obstacles to personal and geographical mobility posed by the communal organization of the liberated peasants , the abolition of serfdom in 1861 nevertheless created conditions in which an even greater number than ever before of voluntary emigrants and settlers from the land-hungry provinces of central European Russia flocked towards the fertile steppe and forest-steppe lands of west and south-west Siberia , thus massively augmenting the influx of peasant settlers already observed in the previous century .
18 We also mentioned do n't quibble about assignments and arrangements , now in Romans chapter twelve , which this text is taken from , if you just go to the previous verses , this is from verse twelve is n't it ?
19 One major theme , already mentioned in the previous chapter , is the search for co-ordination , a search that has figured prominently in a number of urban programmes .
20 This can be caused by a number of factors usually relating to the previous relationships and patterns of communication within the family .
21 erm , but , erm it 's , it 's pretty straightforward , I , I usually refer to the previous month 's erm things anyway just to make sure I 'm doing everything right cos they use
22 I want to welcome obviously particularly er the order relating to Wales because it confers on Wales er one additional seat , giving us five altogether because of the rise in the Welsh population over the last ten years and that er although Wales was under represented under the previous erm er you know distribution of seats which gave us only four we will be slightly over represented when we have five because you simply ca n't have four and a half seats , it 's got to be one or the other but since the Welsh population is continuing to rise very rapidly then it is likely that that will be put right .
23 ‘ We have had more fan mail in the last two years than we ever did in the previous 30 , ’ Gerald says .
24 This represented a four-fold increase on the previous maximum fleet size before 1988–89 .
25 Newspaper and magazine graphics are a classic example of this sort of art ; stock illustrations are used over and over again , weather maps for example , but each one is slightly modified from the previous .
26 Murie says that this was also happening under the previous system : ‘ As the new subsidy scheme under the Housing Act 1980 had been operated to increase council rents ( which in 1982–3 accounted for a higher proportion of average earnings than at any time since 1945 ) , so exchequer subsidies have fallen ’ .
27 But the second games started , Merton would move , striding like a supermarket trolley attendant into the ring and ignoring all the ‘ rules ’ of improvisational comedy that the other clever-clever types had been carefully developing for the previous few years .
28 IN AN entry of over 1,000 cattle at McClelland 's Mart , Ballyclare , animals continued to sell at exceptional rates although prices slightly eased on the previous week .
29 Lord Mayor , Employment Action has been thoroughly debated at the previous Council Committee meetings , with all it 's injustices brought to light .
30 It may have been clearly stated at the previous meeting that the date of the next meeting would be so-and-so , but this will not prevent people from forgetting all about it .
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