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Example sentences for "previous years"

  • During the first six months London was visited by nearly all of the Continental musicians who have been in the habit of coming here in previous years.

  • Classics are yet, happily for us, under the fine inspiration of Professor Gilbert Murray, who though resting from the arduous labours of previous years, revises the proofs of Mr. R.

  • The people had enjoyed a series of good harvests in previous years and in the present year there was a prospect of an excellent spring harvest in the Punjab.

  • The short stories which I have examined in this study, as in previous years, have fallen naturally into four groups.

  • In previous years I have called attention to other selections of Andreyev's stories.

  • He did not have so many in previous years.

  • He arranged with some of the men who fished ling for him in summer that they should fish herring also for him, instead of Mr. Adie, for whom they had in previous years gone to the herring fishing.

  • Was that done with the view of obtaining payment from the agent by whom the men were engaged of a debt due to another merchant incurred in previous years?

  • Yes; but I have got it in previous years in the same way.

  • The failure of the potatoe crop had so impoverished the people, that, during the spring of 1849, the destitution in some parts of the country equalled that which had been known even during the three previous years.

  • He reenumerated the misfortunes which befel Ireland and the colonies during the three previous years, and all the monetary difficulties which befel England, and attributed them, with dextrous dishonesty, to whig impolicy and free trade.

  • Mr. Black has been with us before and he will find many who recall his presence here in previous years.

  • The favored regions in apple growing this year are in the New England states and the Pacific states, the Central states showing a very large falling off in the apple crop, anywhere from four-fifths to one-fourth of previous years.

  • Many of the people approached the spot where he lay whose praises had reached them in previous years, and in silent wonder they stood round him resting on their bows.

  • Here it was that the Doctor had passed weary months of illness on his first approach to Tanganyika in previous years.

  • Livingstone in the neighbourhood of the north-west shores of Bangweolo in previous years.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    burnt offering; clothing should; commenced operations; documents relating; had passed; many churches; maritime boundary; officers killed; previous chapter; previous chapters; previous condition; previous engagement; previous experience; previous knowledge; previous occasion; previous page; previous state; previous years; previously elected; previously explained; previously mentioned; previously noted; previously remarked; rebellion against; summer evening; ultimate extinction