Example sentences of "the previous [adj] [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the previous five years I 'd worked solely as a sports photographer , and had really enjoyed it , but my work on the Hoggar Marathon was different , because I was just as interested in the scenery that surrounded me as I was in the race itself . |
| 2 | A review of the Board 's work in November 197 1 indicated that in the previous five years it had approved six courses in librarianship and two in information science at a total of six colleges . |
| 3 | Of course during the previous factional struggles it had been Trotsky who had been accused of advocating policies which would have led to a split between the working class and peasantry , but now it was Stalin who was in Bukharin 's sights . |
| 4 | In the previous two sections I have attempted to outline ways in which the evidence for God 's existence may either be too strong or too weak to make sense of religious belief My conclusions , however , connect up with the discussion of ‘ meaning ’ and ‘ no meaning ’ forms of theism and atheism in the first chapter . |
| 5 | In the previous two chapters we have shown that there are marked social class variations in the health status of older people . |
| 6 | In the previous two chapters I have summarized two contemporary analyses of science that differ in fundamental respects . |
| 7 | At the end of C.A. 1991 it was recorded that over the previous 18 years we had raised over £210,000 for the cause . |
| 8 | For the previous six weeks we had done nothing but make preparations ; buying the tickets , finding tenants for the house , and , hardest of all , putting the house in a fit state to receive tenants ! |
| 9 | During the previous six months I had been able to keep a more watchful eye on the whereabouts of the elusive Charlie , thanks to the help of a young officer Daphne had introduced me to who worked in the War Office . |
| 10 | Yet the point which he rightly argued was that for the previous thirty years he had personally controlled the maintenance of the ditches and hedges of this parish , so why should he consider newfangled ideas about nature conservation being built into any proposed scheme now ? |
| 11 | The pigeon 's compass sense only was disrupted , as in the previous clock-shifting experiments we discussed . |
| 12 | When the BMJ , in its special commemorative number for the Queen 's Diamond Jubilee in 1897 , reviewed the development of the profession over the previous sixty years it was this aspect that it chose to trumpet . |
| 13 | Over the previous twenty years we had become preoccupied with structural arguments about regions and areas when we should have been concerned about how the service was run . |
| 14 | In discussing the previous three systems it was possible to say something about their knowledge sources and data structures in isolation from the processing performed over them . |
| 15 | For the previous three years he had been busy transcribing the forgotten and unpublished portions of the Shah Jehan Nama , the court chronicle of Shah Jehan . |
| 16 | When I traced my own family tree I found that the Heys had come into the parish of Penistone ( and more particularly to that part known as the township of Thurlstone where I lived ) about the year 1800 and that during the previous three centuries they had resided in Kirkburton parish immediately to the north . |
| 17 | So , explain why in the previous 6 games we had only won 1 . |