The phrase "a previous wave of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to an earlier occurrence or trend of something, often in contexts like social movements, technological advancements, or changes in public opinion.
Example: "The city experienced a previous wave of protests that significantly influenced local policies."
Alternatives: "an earlier surge of" or "a prior wave of".
Mr. Arafat, the Palestinian leader, has been under virtual house arrest here since a previous wave of attacks in early December.
A previous wave of money managers that jumped into lending after the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008 saw their loans sour.
John Howard, the most recent conservative prime minister, triumphed at the polls in 2001 by halting a previous wave of asylum-seekers.
During a previous wave of protests in Gulja in 1997, Uighur human rights advocates say, dozens of demonstrators were killed on the spot by paramilitary forces, and many others executed later.
Mr. Waagner apparently claimed responsibility both for the 270 November mailings to abortion clinics and a previous wave of 280 anthrax threats that were sent through the mail in mid-October.
Indeed, 100 years ago, a previous wave of globalisation played its part in provoking a wave of industrial unrest before the First World War; some argue that politicians saw war as a way of uniting fractious populations.
The Hispanic population has spread out across the nation faster and farther than any previous wave of immigrants, with the movement of Latinos from immigrant gateways into the heartland and suburbs possibly exceeding that of European immigrants in the early 20th century and of African-Americans moving from the Deep South in the period before World War II, according to a study released today.
In these modules, people who had indicated a work limitation in a previous wave were reminded of his or her affirmative response before the question was asked again18.
Similar results have also been found with data from the 1958 British Birth Cohort Study, where 67% of self defined never drinkers reported drinking in a previous wave, 65 with a figure of 53% identified based on follow-up data from the US National Alcohol Survey.
The subsidiary analysis calculated the OR of receiving a diagnosis by a subsequent wave only for those who had met the criteria for 'illness burden' for the relevant long-term condition in a previous wave, and then the likelihood of receiving treatment only for those who had received a medical diagnosis in a previous wave.
For the subsidiary analysis using longitudinal data, we estimated the OR of receiving a diagnosis by a subsequent wave only for those who had met the criteria for 'illness burden' in a previous wave, and then the likelihood of receiving treatment only for those who had received a diagnosis in a previous wave.
