Defense Intelligence Agency Director General Michael Maples noted Taliban attacks in 2008 were up by 55 percent over the previous year.

VOA: standard.2009.03.11

We'll also post an exam from a previous year so you can actually see exactly what the format's going to look like.

我们还会提供一张往年的试卷,这样你就可以确切地知道,考卷的形式。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

In previous years we were even higher, so this was low this year.

前几年的答案比这更高,今年还是比较低的年份

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More than 40 boats carrying refugees seeking asylum in Australia have been intercepted this year, a sharp increase from previous years.

VOA: standard.2009.10.27

Indirect peace talks resumed last year under the previous Israeli government led by Ehud Olmert, but he has since been replaced by hawkish Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

VOA: standard.2009.04.26

This year's vote lacked the suspense of some previous elections, because all five candidates were unopposed and succeeded in getting the two-thirds majority required in the first round of secret ballots.

VOA: standard.2009.10.15

NATO announced that six more U.S.troops have died in Afghanistan, bringing the death toll for July to at least 66 and surpassing the previous month's record as the deadliest for American forces in the nearly nine-year-old war.

VOA: standard.2010.07.30