The phrase "a sample of previous" is not complete and lacks clarity in written English.
It can be used when referring to an example or representation of something that has occurred before, but it needs additional context to be fully understood.
Example: "In our report, we included a sample of previous studies to support our findings."
Alternatives: "an example of prior" or "a representation of earlier".
View a sample of previous January experiences here.
The second stage was to pilot the checklist, by conducting a retrospective review of a sample of previous applications.
Previous interventions using pre-formulated implementation intentions to promote CRC screening using FOBt have had no overall impact on screening uptake in a large, population-based sample [ 16], and only a modest impact in a sample of previous responders [ 17].
We contacted a sample of previous users of LLTTF and through an AdWord's advert (using the keyword depression) sought volunteers in our target areas (12 of 121 postcode areas in Britain).
As a companion to a major profile this weekend by David Streitfeld and Christine Haughney, here is a sampler of previous articles tracing what he has accomplished and how he has been perceived.
The adolescents in the present study were recruited from a sample of a previous study, which comprised food-hypersensitive children and adolescents with exclusion diets at school.
Both of these scoring systems had been validated in the prior study, and a sample of the previous recordings was also reviewed to confirm continued reliability.
Below is a sample of experiments run in previous years.
In a sample of Marines with no previous psychiatric disorder diagnoses, 18% were diagnosed with a new-onset psychiatric disorder.
Search terms used included those provided by a sample of women, pregnant after previous CS, attending the antenatal clinic in Aberdeen Maternity Hospital (between Dec 2013 Jan 201414).
As many of the previous studies looking at the frequency of physical symptoms have focused on medically unexplained symptoms, a large proportion of the sample of previous studies of symptoms has been drawn from medically defined samples such as individuals registered with general practices, 9 11 primary care samples, 12 14 hospital outpatients 2 15 or high users of hospital care.
