previously

Previously, we'd been out for a drink.

Guyana's railways were previously owned by private companies.

The contract was awarded to a previously unknown company.

Previously she had very little time to work in her own garden.

Previously, units of grain had been represented by direct one-to-one correspondence―by repeating the token or symbol for a unit of grain the required number of times.

The center of Lamanai society had previously been in the northern part of the city.

We should not underestimate the social status associated with such mundane possessions which had not previously been available.

For instance, although evidence was found of deforestation, you know, cutting down trees, from at least 7,000 years ago, that is long before we'd thought previously.

A group of archaeologists returned to a site that had been previously examined, Kuk Swamp, which is in a mountain valley in the highlands of what is now Papua, New Guinea.

We know this because the fourteen-year-olds had previously been tested in a few different areas.

As time went on, such communities gradually learned how to direct the flow of water to enhance the productive capacity of the land, while the introduction of the iron plow eventually led to the cultivation of heavy soils not previously susceptible to agriculture.

Under these conditions, it made good sense to thousands of peasant families to in effect workfull-time at what they had been able to do only part-time previously because of the requirement to work for the government: grow rice for the marketplace.

It would appear now that this contact occurred much earlier than previously thought.

The Venetian Council finally allowed round ships to enter the trade that was previously reserved for merchant galleys, thus reducing transport cost by one third.

Steamboats were not only faster but also transported upriver freight for about one tenth of what it had previously cost on hand-propelled keelboats.

As pianos became more available, they brought classical music, the music which previously had been composed only for the upper classes, into the lives of middle class people as well.

Previously it was, uh, quite rare for a woman to perform on anything but, maybe, a harp or maybe she sang.

Indium, for example, had previously been assigned an atomic mass between those of arsenic and selenium.

Ramsay then studied a gas that was present in natural gas deposits and discovered that it was helium, an element whose presence in the Sun had been noted earlier in the spectrum of sunlight but that had not previously been known on Earth.

With these sophisticated observational assessment and electro-physiological measures, we know that the neonate of only a few days is far more perceptive than previously suspected.

The size of the shrubs has increased and shrub cover has spread to what was previously shrub-free tundra.

For example, a well-known Burgess Shale animal called Sidneyia is a representative of a previously unknown group of arthropods (a category of animals that includes insects, spiders, mites, and crabs).

Previously, large audiences had viewed spectacles at the theater, where vaudeville, popular dramas, musical and minstrel shows, classical plays, lectures, and slide-and-lantern shows had been presented to several hundred spectators at a time.

The expansion of desert-like conditions into areas where they did not previously exist is called desertification.