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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a generation previously" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a time period that is one generation earlier than the current time being discussed.
Example: "The technology we use today was unimaginable a generation previously, as people relied on much simpler tools."
Alternatives: "a generation ago" or "one generation earlier".
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So it seems fairly safe to say that this app is not going to undermine modern maths education, much like calculators didn't a generation previously.
Yet Britain's fourth Afghan war in 180 years has been in some respects a less enduringly divisive national experience than either the Iraq war or the Falklands war a generation previously.
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H2: Formalization is positively related to idea generation (previously called initiations).
Research into synthetic streamflow generation previously focused primarily on engineering purposes, while disregarding hydro-ecological implications with regard to daily flow.
France was the bitterest and most committed of Germany's enemies, but Germany (then Prussia) had beaten her soundly in the Franco-Prussian War one generation previously.
All individuals have membership to both population clusters indicating that admixture occurred a number of generations previously and genes from both parent populations have subsequently spread through the introduced population (SNP markers in this population generally also conform to HWE, Table 3).
He presided over the launches of the Nintendo DS handheld gaming system – the second-most successful console to date, after Sony's PlayStation 2 – and the Nintendo Wii, with its innovative, much-copied motion-sensing, TV remote-style controller, which appealed to a generation that had previously found video games intimidating.
Lead by conspicuously schlubby guys like James Murphy, along with The Rapture and Juan Maclean, these new pied pipers of underground dance music would eagerly introduce disco and house to a generation of hipsters previously fed a steady diet of The Strokes and PBR.
Shaw sometimes treated the topic in a light-hearted way, pointing out that if eugenics had been thought about some generations previously, he himself may not have been born, so depriving humanity of his great contributions.
This would indicate a more rapid loss of the stress memory after paraquat than the long-lasting effect (at least 4 generations) previously described after UV-C treatment [18].
The mutation was calculated to be introduced in all the families approximately 3.9 generations previously for the parental generation.
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