Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [noun] the previous " in BNC.
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| 1 | Circumstances had greatly changed : the Elector Palatine had become also Elector of Bavaria the previous year , and had removed himself and his court — including the orchestra and singers , the Weber family too — to Munich . |
| 2 | Poindexter remembered that Casey invited himself , that they ate sandwiches , and that they discussed what Casey had said in his briefing of Congress the previous day . |
| 3 | Since gaining independence within the Commonwealth ( as an " independent sovereign state " from 1963 and as a republic from 1967 ) , Uganda has been ruled by regimes dominated first by Milton Obote ( 1962-71 ) and then by Idi Amin ( 1971-79 ) ; Obote was re-elected as President in 1980 in the aftermath of the Tanzanian backed overthrow of Amin the previous year , but was himself overthrown in 1985 . |
| 4 | 12 May : The Mail prints a letter from its owner , Lord Rothermere , saying that he wishes to distance himself from the newspaper 's criticism of the Archbishop of Canterbury the previous day . |
| 5 | As reported on June 6 , the RPF had succeeded in capturing the town of Biumba the previous day but failed to hold it ; the official death toll was 24 rebels and three government soldiers killed . |
| 6 | Already , even before the move , Herbert was ‘ going his own way ’ , and there had been a period of separation the previous year when Grace took the children to stay in Cape Town for six months or more . |
| 7 | Comment on the dollar had been sombre for much of the year in the train of developments the previous autumn . |
| 8 | Barratt sold 2,017 houses at an average price of £75,800 in the half year , down from 2,128 completions at an average of £81,200 the previous year . |
| 9 | The loss compares with a profit of £1.2m the previous year . |
| 10 | At 8 am yesterday , Woosnam resumed play on the 14th green , having refused to hole a putt of 4ft the previous night in case he missed it . |
| 11 | The markka , which had been pegged to the European currency unit ( ECU ) in June [ see p. 38297 ] , had been allowed to float temporarily by the Bank of Finland the previous day , after speculative pressure had caused short-term interest rates to rise to 30 per cent and resulted in a heavy capital outflow . |