Example sentences of "[subord] [prep] the previous [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On May 3 the Interior Minister Mohammed Abdel-Halim Moussa announced that 65 " extremists and rioters " had been arrested at Imbabah , that rioting had been quelled at Isna in the Qina governorate — where in the previous week " three extremists " had killed a guard of the state security investigation department — and that he intended " to strengthen the security presence " in various governorates over the following two weeks . |
| 2 | Rally-attenders at Wheathampstead were gratified to find the school magnificently decorated with flowers ( albeit for the previous evening 's farewell to the retiring headmaster ) . |
| 3 | Reserve backing for the dollar deteriorated more in 1970 than during the previous decade . |
| 4 | There are fewer districts than under the previous system . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Announced were : a new , and supposedly high-performant and OLTP friendly version of its database engine , SQL Server ; enhanced versions of the Open Client and Open Server offerings , plus the Embedded SQL for SQL C , Cobol and Ada precompilers ; and new and enhanced control servers , the technology Sybase argues customers need to control distributed applications , Sybase Backup Server ( with backup , loading and recovery facilities , database consistency checking three times faster than in the previous release , and bulk loading of data — now capable of loading up to 1Gb an hour , and claimed to be seven times faster . |
| 8 | Announced were a new , and supposedly high-performant and transaction processing-friendly version of its database engine , SQL Server ; enhanced versions of the Open Client and Open Server offerings , plus the Embedded SQL for SQL C , Cobol and Ada precompilers ; and new and enhanced control servers , the technology Sybase argues customers need to control distributed applications , Sybase Backup Server ( with back-up , loading and recovery facilities , database consistency checking three times faster than in the previous release , and bulk loading of data — now capable of loading up to 1Gb an hour , and claimed to be seven times faster . |
| 9 | With his party winning 20 seats — two fewer than in the previous parliament — Mr Ashdown conceded that the high hopes generated by his widely praised campaign had not been fulfilled . |
| 10 | With his party winning 20 seats — two fewer than in the previous parliament — Mr Ashdown conceded that the high hopes generated by his widely praised campaign had not been fulfilled . |
| 11 | It is a sign of the slowly increasing political maturity of the age that serious negotiations were less frequently impeded by such quibbles than in the previous century . |
| 12 | Formed in 1879 , the cricket club has had more success in the past decade than in the previous century Vaux North West Durham League champions for the past four seasons . |
| 13 | In voting for the 56 Greek-Cypriot delegates to the House of Representatives ( the nominal allocation of 24 seats to Turkish-Cypriots continued unfilled ) , the conservative Democratic Rally ( DISY ) finished first with 35.8 per cent of the vote and 20 seats ( one more than in the previous assembly ) . |
| 14 | In the last three months , the volume of retail sales was 0.3 per cent higher than in the previous quarter and 1.75 per cent higher than the corresponding period a year ago . |
| 15 | The absolute loss of population from the cores of Greater London , Greater Manchester and Merseyside was less than in the previous decade , but population growth is now firmly identified with smaller towns and accessible settlements in the countryside . |
| 16 | In the 1980s local decentralization has been occurring at a slower pace than in the previous decade and in some cases appears to have gone into reverse . |
| 17 | In broad terms , our membership of the European Economic Community was likely to quicken the pace of technical and economic change in the industry , thereby causing a further contraction of the labour force and a further substitution of capital for labour , though at a slower rate than in the previous decade . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , the UK has experienced a more rapid growth in both investment and output in the past decade than in the previous decade . |
| 19 | Inflation , if still a problem , was much lower than in the previous decade and nominal rates of interest were also lower . |
| 20 | The purer strains of Liberal individualism were markedly less influential in the 1900s than in the previous generation . |
| 21 | In many households the modern standard of living depends on married women finding jobs , often in service occupations , on a scale much greater than in the previous generation . |
| 22 | Last year Britons swigged water worth about £150m ( $243m ) , 60% more than in the previous year . |
| 23 | Wellcome announced pre-tax profits of $413m during the 13 months ended 31 August 1991 , 28 per cent higher than in the previous year . |
| 24 | Bio Research Ireland , a division of the Irish Science and Technology Agency , exceeded its targets for 1990 , with actual income of IR£1.06m ( £1 = IR£1.04 ) , 64 per cent higher than in the previous year . |
| 25 | Louis was told that it was substantially smaller than in the previous year , but in fact the allied fleet assembled at Portsmouth consisted of 63 English ships and 36 Dutch , with a combined fire-power of 6736 guns , plus 38 fireships ; the French , moving up-Channel from Brest , could muster 44 warships with 3240 guns and 38 fireships . |
| 26 | First , Christmas was two days later than in the previous year ( because 1992 was a leap year ) and fell on a Friday . |
| 27 | SunSoft company claims it did 35% more business on Interactive Unix in 1992 than in the previous year , when the Interactive Systems Corp unit was still owned by Eastman Kodak . |
| 28 | SunSoft company claims it did 35% more business on Interactive Unix in 1992 than in the previous year , when the Interactive Systems Corp unit was still owned by Eastman Kodak Co . |
| 29 | Despite recession , and although the total number of investments fell by 10% , venture capitalists have poured $1.1 billion into budding European enterprises in 1992 , 6% more in dollar terms than in the previous year . |
| 30 | Our data were subject to several constraints : a far lower response rate from probation officers in the second survey ; the effects of changes in agency policies and practices during the two survey years ( e.g. medics ' notifying practices , police detection efforts/successes ) ; the ‘ loss ’ of some users identified in the first survey , and of some new users , to institutions and agencies not covered by the research ( e.g. custody , rehabilitation units , drug agencies in adjacent areas ) ; disillusionment with some agencies among heroin users ( particularly medical services ) , which may have produced a higher ratio of unknown to known users than in the previous year ; the optimistic assumption of 20 per cent annual outcidence-for instance , one review of follow-up studies of opioid users suggests that outcidence after one year is typically around 10 per cent , and may only reach 40–50 per cent after ten years , even for those who have received ‘ treatment ’ ( Home Office 1986 , ch. 7 ) ; and the decline in the size of the youth population , due largely to the drop in the birth rate during the 1960s-that is , the absolute number of known heroin users could decrease while the rate per 1,000 youths remained the same or even increased ( the population figures from which our prevalence rates were calculated derived from 1981 Census statistics , and do not take into account projected trends ) . |