previously

Definition:
1. At an earlier time or formerly.

Use 'previously' in a sentence:

• 1. She had rented the flat from the council some fourteen months previously.
• 2. I haven't met him previously.
• 3. By 2005 he wants half of all new houses to be built on previously developed land: so-called brownfield sites.
• 4. The deviation from the previously accepted agreement cannot be forgiven.
• 5. The eight-mile road is at least 500 years older than any previously discovered road.
• 6. Women's sports are breaking down the barriers in previously male-dominated domains.
• 7. Previously our mountain area [ region] is poor and impoverised.
• 8. The evidence given in court was inconsistent with what he had previously told them.
• 9. Only the European Space Agency and the US have previously sent probes there.
• 10. The next afternoon Sara spoke to a few of her teammates, two of which I had previously dated.
• 11. He had first entered the House 12 years previously.
• 12. The company had previously announced the planned closures, but had not said which locations would be affected.
• 13. The size of the shrubs has increased and shrub cover has spread to what was previously shrub-free tundra.
• 14. Previously she had very little time to work in her own garden.
• 15. Six months previously he had quitted his job.
• 16. This means that we have to set all the previously mentioned properties.
• 17. This country has previously witnessed two great struggles to achieve a truly multicultural democracy.
• 18. These black models are moving in on what was previously white territory: the lucrative cosmetic contracts.
• 19. Previously, scientists noticed pollutants arriving in the Arctic with the wind.
• 20. Previously our mountain area [region] is poor and impoverised.
• 21. Other researchers had previously modified the bacterium to produce alcohol from organic waste.
• 22. She previously worked as a teacher.
• 23. The drug is to be reclassified after trials showed it to be more harmful than previously thought.
• 24. He certainly got a good break when he began to work in that firm; yet he deserved it because previously he had got a series of bad breaks.
• 25. Spassky had never previously lost to his antagonist.
• 26. It may be less damaging than previously believed.
• 27. The two fighters had previously boxed a 12-round match.
• 28. Archaeologist Bill Kelso and his team discovered the church in a previously unexplored area of the fort in Jamestown.
• 29. We print a selection of previously unseen photos from the Spanish rider's early years.
• 30. The changed outlook entails higher economic growth than was previously assumed.
• 31. He may suddenly take a dislike to foods that he's previously enjoyed.
• 32. The document was previously circulated in New York at the United Nations.
• 33. His statement ran athwart what was previously said.
• 34. Reviews are distilled from articles previously published in the main column.
• 35. The contract was awarded to a previously unknown company.
• 36. A previously unknown extremist group has said it carried out Friday's bomb attack.
• 37. Marine life was discovered at depths previously thought to be azoic.
• 38. I should like to add a corrective to what I have written previously.
• 39. Radiation may damage cells in a way that was previously unforeseen.
• 40. Guyana's railways were previously owned by private companies.
• 41. Some drugs are being used on a much larger scale than previously.
• 42. Indium, for example, had previously been assigned an atomic mass between those of arsenic and selenium.
• 43. Many previously separate groups are now operating under the umbrella of a single authority.
• 44. Thanks to the automobile, Americans soon had a freedom of movement previously unknown.
• 45. The scientist confirmed the snake was a previously unknown species after conducting a genetic analysis of tissue samples.
• 46. The building had previously been used as a hotel.