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COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a previous marriage
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Anne is his daughter from a previous marriage.
a previous occasion
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He insisted then, as on every previous occasion, that he was innocent.
a previous/earlier study
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The report is a summary of the work done in earlier studies.
a previous/prior conviction (= a crime someone was found guilty of in the past )
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The man had five previous convictions for being drunk and disorderly.
a previous/prior engagement (= one that is already arranged )
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I'm sorry I can't be there, but I have a previous engagement.
earlier/previous estimates
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These amounts are much higher than those given in previous estimates.
in a previous incarnation
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She believes she was an Egyptian queen in a previous incarnation .
original/previous/new owner
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the club’s new owners
past/previous experience
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His only previous experience of broadcasting consisted of a job hosting a local radio station.
the next/previous page
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I glanced back to the previous page.
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What’s on the next page?
the previous day (= the day before something happened in the past )
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I had been to the doctor the previous day.
the previous week
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She thought about what a colleague had said to her the previous week.
the previous weekend
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The talks had been scheduled for the previous weekend.
the previous year
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They had married the previous year.
the previous/preceding chapter
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The method is described in the previous chapter.
the previous/preceding generation
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He was the equal of any of the previous generation of great explorers.
the previous/preceding month (= the month before )
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Sales were lower than in the previous month.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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century
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Unwin's architectural ideas showed a continuity from the previous century .
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Wood engraving is an old process: Many newspaper and magazine illustrations from the previous century were reproduced through the process.
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DuÜan built on the foundations laid by his predecessors during the previous century .
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That domination brought a unity to the north which had been notably lacking since the end of the previous century .
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In it, Ptolemy summarized much of the scientific knowledge which had been amassed over the previous centuries .
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Dada released an amazing fount of creativity that had been largely repressed by the ethics of previous centuries .
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Both also operated as armies had done for many previous centuries by finding their supplies from the land as they moved about.
chapter
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If the previous chapter of this Report is taken seriously, however, there is a challenge which faces us all.
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In the previous chapter we hypothesized that potential entrants assume that the industry price will not be affected by their entry.
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As the previous chapter showed, many aspects of growing up in today's world encourage such a dismissive attitude to religion.
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In fact the conditional theory adopts some of the best points of several of the theories found wanting in the previous chapter .
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This corresponds broadly with the approach of the previous chapter , and owes much to the Weberian analysis of bureaucracy.
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In the previous chapter you may recall that job loss in manufacturing started in the mid-1960s.
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Qualitative forecasting techniques are used to assist and augment the quantitative forecasting process described in the previous chapter .
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Historical materialism can also be used to explain the history of penal thought sketched in the previous chapter .
conviction
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Cook, who has previous convictions for robbery, pleaded guilty to attempted rape and to unlawful wounding.
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In January 1994, he agreed to give free concerts as compensation for a previous conviction on drunken driving charges.
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John Hargreaves, prosecuting, said that Bulmer had a long list of previous convictions .
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The magistrates were told that he had three previous convictions for alcohol-related offences.
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He was over the drink-drive limit and had a previous conviction for careless driving.
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Tomkinson had a previous conviction for exposing himself to a woman in 1985 and was given probation in 1990 for assault.
day
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The previous day Bull took out a newspaper advertisement promising to do better in future.
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Woosung Construction went insolvent yesterday when it failed to honor 16. 9 billion worth of promissory notes the previous day .
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Compared to the previous day this is a short walk whether you choose the high or low route.
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The pair had quarrelled the previous day .
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The previous day a letter had conic from the Ministry of Education.
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So, when the Persians found themselves doing no better than on the previous day , they drew off again.
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The winning number combination of the previous day , 651, is also written on the menu board.
decade
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In 1989-90 non-mineral exports would total P225,000,000 less than current expenditure, breaking the pattern of the previous decade .
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Over the previous decade . investors had put only $ 22 million into Lowertown.
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Many of those affected by the relocation had left the south as refugees from the conflict there in the previous decade .
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In previous decades this would signify certain defeat for the revolution.
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Not so: the recruit of today is generally better educated and more enquiring than his counterpart of previous decades .
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This means that sexually active teenagers are using contraceptives more effectively than they have in previous decades .
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Higher education had only just resumed with some semblance of normality after the disruption of the previous decade .
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His memory may have been tarnished over the previous decade with the acknowledgement of his serious policy errors.
evening
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Everything was exactly the same as it had been when she'd gone to sleep the previous evening .
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That had been the word from Soong through the previous evening .
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Millie remembered it from the previous evening .
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Frau Mozart had died the previous evening .
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Slowly the events of the previous evening re-assembled themselves.
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Eddie explained that the day's work had started at seven o'clock the previous evening when two customers telephoned requesting samples.
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He had made no mention of the previous evening , nor had she expected him to.
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She'd invited him round the previous evening and things hadn't gone at all as he'd hoped.
experience
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The technical supremo is Caroline Fawcett-Inne whose previous experience was organising a cocktail party in a punt one May Week.
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Spring focus: Buck Martinez is moving from the broadcast booth to the manager's office with no previous experience .
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We advertised for people who had previous experience so they could set the system up from scratch.
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I may still have known it was there, but only because I recognized the cues from previous experience .
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They may have views on issues which derive from previous experience .
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The effect of relatively few firearms had been devastating against a warrior race with no previous experience of them.
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A local authority that has no previous experience of serving Repairs Notices can be encouraged in two ways.
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Nothing in their training or previous experience had accustomed them to this kind of civil disobedience.
generation
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Where would we be but for the work done by previous generations ?
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Generation X, best known for its pierced bodies and jaded outlook, is more optimistic about Wall Street than previous generations.
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For a start, those retiring today are better off financially than any previous generation .
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Unlike previous generations of cruise ships, the ever-larger vessels delivered in recent years have virtually no single cabins.
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Compared with previous generations , we do less and eat more.
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Trade and law drew the interest of the kind of talented young men who in previous generations chose ministry for their lifework.
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But this is all quite new and it does not follow that previous generations of advertisers were as enthusiastic about sport.
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We travel, change professions, know more and live longer per capita than any previous generation .
government
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Jones is also determined to increase funding for basic research, which he says the previous government allowed to run down.
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It did both under its previous government-granted monopoly.
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Their raw material and energy costs would rise, while being deprived of their previous government subsidies.
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A previous government had negotiated the project.
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Some of the present government's high technology spending is being inflated by including money already earmarked by the previous government .
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Corruption and the mismanagement of the economy by the previous government are major issues.
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Labour has re-nationalised the accident compensation scheme, which the previous government had opened to competition from business.
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Raquel Zelaya, a neo-liberal economist, was an advisor to the previous government .
incarnation
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Only the flagship 50 configurations use the 7100; the lower end boxes in each class using previous incarnations of the chip.
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But only because I liked the irony; in his previous incarnation , I could not have imagined him near the water.
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He has been a sceptic in all of his previous incarnations .
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Little had changed here since its previous incarnation .
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Kohl pencil comes in at roughly three times the price it was in its previous incarnation as an eyeliner.
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It was too narrow in its previous incarnation .
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Those of you with long memories will remember Robert Rankin's previous incarnation with Pan.
life
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Old Miss Lissie not only remembers her previous lives , but changes physically when she does so.
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She moved through the rooms of her life as if she were a ghost haunting the sites of her previous life.
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Initially, he had bucked against her restraints, often asking her direct questions about her previous life , about his father.
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Partnership Pals Partnership pals are often those you have probably known in your previous life before you became a successful entrepreneur.
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The days were all so quiet and relaxing, after the hardships and poverty of his previous life .
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Do you ever cover more than one previous life in a single session?
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Each creature has its own karma, its own personal mind patterns, derived from its own past history of previous lives .
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Depending on her partner's previous life experience, anxiety or guilt or caring can be aroused.
marriage
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There was also another son from a previous marriage .
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Ties between the woman and her daughters by a previous marriage were almost nonexistent, the neighbor said.
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She had been married 19 years; they had no children together, but each had a son from a previous marriage .
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Steve Merrill, for example, has been the target of anonymous faxes about his previous marriages .
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She had one son of her previous marriage .
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Debon has three children from a previous marriage , who were reared by their father.
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Married at twenty-two a woman eleven years older than himself, with one son by a previous marriage .
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I heard she married a guy with two kids from a previous marriage .
month
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Had she imagined the violence of the previous months ?
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One was reported to have fallen in Fortune Bay, where another bright fireball had fallen the previous month .
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Private machinery orders collapsed in December, down 28% from the previous month .
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Passenger traffic on board Le Shuttle in December rose 21 percent on the previous month .
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The value of exports also dropped slightly to £4,685m, compared with a record £4,702m in the previous month .
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J., the previous month on drug charges, and that she had fingered Felix as her cocaine facilitator.
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The previous month he had four, one as I told you lasting for hours.
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But he fell ill the previous month and had to cancel.
night
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Alan thought of the little scene he had witnessed the previous night .
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No one had talked about it at the getting-to-know-you-dinner the previous night either.
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He remembered the confessions of the previous night , and he remembered the young man who had confronted him outside his hotel.
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The previous night , Charles guided Artesia to its second straight state title.
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The rats disturbed him more than the previous night .
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He had found the Lysander only the previous night , on a fighter field at Beda Fomm, south of Benghazi.
occasion
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On both of the previous occasions , the area was evacuated and isolated until the storm blew itself apart.
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Often these acts of kindness came from the same men who had grossly failed to exercise judgment on previous occasions .
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This time, as on many previous occasions , it didn't work out.
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She has played the role on three previous occasions .
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Rain had met some of them on previous occasions .
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Some athletes have even denied stories that they had told us on previous occasions .
owner
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The previous owner of Lou's place was a builder, and had used his craft to improve both cottage and garden.
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The previous owner was one Jeremy Finch, who at the time of the sale had lived in Larchmont.
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I have been told by the previous owner that he filled the hubs with grease instead of oil.
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The previous owners had never received any publicity.
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The shop had recently been taken over and the existing stock had been brought in by the previous owner .
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The previous owner had used a bathroom off one of the bedrooms as storage and simply closed the door on it.
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The previous owners , one an interior designer, had renovated the whole place very much to Sue and Reg's taste.
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This shows the line of descent down to three previous owners of Upper Halling.
quarter
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In the third quarter of 1992 business insolvencies rose by 21% compared with the previous quarter.
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Output rose 5. 8 percent on the previous quarter to 62, 096 ounces.
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There were 327 children on the list on April 1, an increase of just two on the previous quarter .
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The failure of a motor had adversely affected ore treatment in the previous quarter , the company said.
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Intel, the leading computer chip maker, said first-\#quarter revenues would be 25 % below the previous quarter.
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The rate changes each calendar quarter , based on the market rates during the previous quarter.
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New commissions for housing and offices show a marked decline over previous quarters .
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That would compare with 40 percent sales growth in previous quarters .
record
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He finally persuaded Bolton to sell, but the asking price was an unprecedented £13,000, twice the previous record .
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The previous record was in 1989, when the company posted a profit of 2. 83 billion francs.
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And the former petty crook had no previous record for violence.
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Last week's award is more than six times bigger than the previous record , which was struck down on appeal.
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Roach had no previous record of violence and was mentally retarded.
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The total breaks its previous record of 464, 651 in 1979, the company said.
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It took more than a thousand participants to make it happen, beating the previous record by thirty-five.
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The previous record was set earlier in the season when teammate Erica Mashia went 12 for 12 from the line against Maine.
section
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As we saw in the previous section , the model is extremely complicated.
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Let us extend our example from the previous section where there are only two goods, films and meals.
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Technologies and preferences are those used in the previous section .
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At all times, you need to remain aware of the risk factors mentioned in the previous section .
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In this case the home country exports good 1, just as in the partial equilibrium model discussed in the previous section .
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Use the last phrase of the previous section to get smoothly into the opening phrase of the next movement.
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Our first restriction, used in the previous sections , is the assumption of constant expenditure shares.
study
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Administration of indomethacin caused no decrease in the glucose induced insulin release in our preparation confirming previous studies .
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The study also found that garlic supplements reduced blood pressure modestly, confirming results from previous studies.
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Real time ultrasound is a simple method of measuring gastric emptying which has been validated by previous studies .
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Some previous studies had concluded that there are as many as 236, 000 firearm-related injuries in the United States yearly.
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The second part of the project extends previous studies by Cohen and Faulkner of what is known as Reality Monitoring.
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In our previous study , the ratio of gastric to duodenal ulcers was 1.69 in Kinki district where Kyoto Prefecture is located.
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None of these subjects had taken part in either of the previous studies .
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In addition, a study will be made of syllabuses, previous studies of this kind and other relevant documentation.
week
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Somerfield reported sales of pasta and rice were up by 87 per cent on the previous week .
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The previous week , we learned that newly elected Rep.
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Also captured his first Montgomery County Public Schools diving title the previous week after posting a 3-1 regular season mark.
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None was receiving antibiotics or had taken acid inhibitory agents within the previous week .
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Just imagine the hippocampus playing back a partial spatiotemporal pattern to the cortex-maybe a fragment of something from the previous week .
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She had been reviewing the previous week on her walk to the rectory.
work
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The research method will be modelled on previous work of members of the Aesthetics Research Group published during the period 1973-82.
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Abstract ideas became focused as he pulled together previous work on neural nets.
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Discussion Our previous work and that of others has shown the spontaneous resolution of glue ear in the short term.
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The central differences among the groups are level of education and previous work experience.
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A number of hypotheses drawn from the previous work of the investigators will be used to structure the analysis.
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I cited my previous work experience.
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They are designed primarily for practitioners who are either currently working or who have previous work experience in the industry.
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Consequently, new areas were mapped before the previous work had been written up.
year
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The number of jobs safeguarded by the investment was 81,411, an increase of 8.4 % on the previous year .
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They showing such a tremendous turnaround from what they had the previous year .
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Will the principal roles be taken by the same group of children who starred in previous years ?
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Although it still has a stronger name on the track, the 1992 road range builds on the strength of previous years .
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While they had been there the previous year there had been hardly any visitors.
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The Warrington-based electrical components group announced £7.34m profits for the year to March 31, compared with £3.68m for the previous year.
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In 1991 there were 4,046 rapes, a rise of 17 percent on the previous year , 766 kidnaps and 411 abductions.
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The anniversary, unlike those of previous years , was reported to have passed off peacefully.
years
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Will the principal roles be taken by the same group of children who starred in previous years ?
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Even horses had occasionally made the trip on ice bridges formed in previous years .
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Although it still has a stronger name on the track, the 1992 road range builds on the strength of previous years .
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In previous years , their pay increases operated from April.
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Yesterday's ceremony followed the same pattern as those in previous years .
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The anniversary, unlike those of previous years , was reported to have passed off peacefully.
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Attendance was considerably higher than in previous years , with over 1,000 visitors per day.
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It was backed by its traditional allies from the debates of previous years .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Andi has two children from a previous marriage.
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Each number in the series 2 - 4 - 8 - 16 is twice as large as the previous number.
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Kirsty's baby had been born the previous October, while she was still in England.
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Please ignore my previous instructions.
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The previous chapter examined how children learn language.
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The previous owner did not take very good care of the place.
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The car's previous owner didn't take very good care of it.
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The company recorded a 50% increase in profits over the previous year.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He had been in the village the previous evening and I hadn't bothered to wait up until he returned.
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It will be faster, more versatile and user-friendly than any previous technology.
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More particularly, different aspects and different consequences of this previous moral order are identified.
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Of the previous four victims, three have been killed and one left paralysed.
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She had been diagnosed the previous summer with congestive heart failure, but for a year a new medicine worked well.
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That way, if you have a catastrophic problem, you can restore your system to its previous state.
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The study also found that garlic supplements reduced blood pressure modestly, confirming results from previous studies.