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