Example sentences of "[adv prt] on previous " in BNC.
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| 1 | IF charities are concerned because sales of their Christmas cards are down on previous years , they have only themselves to blame . |
| 2 | WONDERFUL WOBURN produced a number of surprises this year at the annual gathering of the de Havilland Moth Club in the picturesque grounds of Woburn Abbey over the weekend of August 15/16 although strong winds and generally poor weather in the few days leading up to the event meant that the number of foreign Moths arriving was down on previous years . |
| 3 | The sale , which began in 1955 , has been in decline : last winter fewer than 290 booksellers and 12 publishers took part , significantly down on previous years . |
| 4 | The 1993 winter sale , which ends on 30th January , has so far been a major disappointment : fewer than 290 booksellers have taken part , significantly down on previous years . |
| 5 | As a result , the number of such procedures is well down on previous years because the process is much better . |
| 6 | Initial reports suggest that visitor numbers were down on previous years , but that the quality of enquiry was high , helped by the positive reaction of visitors responding to specific areas of business on display . |
| 7 | Above : The Confederate Air Force SB2C-5 Helldiver was part of a varied , but down on previous years , attendance at the charismatic Geneseo airfield . |
| 8 | Bush claimed that US industrial production was already 42 per cent down on previous levels . |
| 9 | You 'll see that both the number of requests for service , and the number of visits made are well up on previous half years , and although some of that is due to probably the highest figure on insect complaints we 've ever had for six months , and erm it 's not all that , much of it is lately the department has been very , very busy indeed . |
| 10 | Had Innocent III wished — and the evidence is to the contrary — there would have been no going back on previous policy . |