The phrase "a previous action" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to an action that occurred before a certain point in time or before another action takes place.
Example: "The results of the experiment were influenced by a previous action taken by the researchers."
Alternatives: "an earlier action" or "a prior action".
Like a previous action hero, Bourne will be back.
The report also referred imprecisely to a previous action taken by the state's chief administrative judge.
After a time, he says, he began to read them as un-, as in the sense of a reversal of a previous action.
The funding had been taken away by George W. Bush after it had been restored by Bill Clinton, who was reversing a previous action by Ronald Reagan.
The details of the indictment, many of which came out during Mr. Rajaratnam's trial and a previous action by the Securities and Exchange Commission, could prove explosive; he is the first executive from the upper echelons of corporate America to be implicated in the far-reaching scandal.
Repetition simply demonstrates a repetition of a previous action, and boundaries also exist between the new action and the previous one.
In a previous action-selection task, we observed that patients with PD "on" medication repeatedly selected the same response in their action-selection decisions, and response repetition in these patients was linearly related to disease severity.
What initially seems to be random violence against innocent targets proves to be a consequence of previous action.
There were no further wickets for Sidebottom in another 11 probing overs but that was an impressive stint for a man whose only previous action since the Barbados Test in March had been a cameo for Leek last weekend.
Based on the Obama Administration's previous action an Appeal or a Motion for Reconsideration will likely be filed.
The film grossed HK$19,711,048 which was not as strong of a box office reception as Woo's previous action films A Better Tomorrow or The Killer.
