The phrase "a previous term" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a term that was used or mentioned earlier in a discussion, text, or context.
Example: "In the context of our discussion, we need to clarify the meaning of a previous term that was introduced in the last chapter."
Alternatives: "an earlier term" or "a prior term".
Cervical insufficiency can be unexpected in a woman with a previous term birth.
It wasn't the mayor's first humiliation in court: During a previous term, in 1984, Mr. Cianci was given a five-year suspended sentence for attacking his estranged wife's lover with a fireplace log.
If I received accommodations in a previous term from the Extension School or Harvard Summer School, do I need to re-submit my documentation and Request for Accommodation form?
Term Dates - Dates that are set globally which help to manage users' "dashboard" and "all courses course lists" to show courses completed during a previous term under a "Past Enrollments" heading.
For purposes of pro-rating, occupancy is considered to begin when a student moves in, or in the case of residence continuous with a previous term, the day following the last day of occupancy for the previous term.
During a previous term in the 1990s, Mr Fernández became the first Dominican president to visit Haiti in 60 years.Mr Fernández says he found Mr Préval alone in a small, dark back office at a police station near the airport.
In his previous term, a cameraman caught him staggering about the site of a mass grave, at Kharkov, in Ukraine, of second-world-war Polish army officers.
James Marcus, while attending Columbia University, heard rumors of a student in the previous term whose work Brodsky had ridiculed so mercilessly that she burst into tears in class.
In the previous term, a 5-to-4 decision that imposed tight time limits on workers' ability to file pay discrimination cases drew a strong response, including an unsuccessful effort in Congress to overturn it by amending the statute the court had interpreted.
He promptly did return, thrusting himself back into politics as a proponent of market-oriented policies, a far cry from his previous term when tried to nationalize the banking system.
For example, the finite power set ℘fin takes a class C to the class of finite subsets of C. each of whose terms is an element of the previous term.
