The phrase "a string of previous" is not complete and lacks clarity in written English.
It can be used when referring to a series of prior events, actions, or items, but it needs additional context to be fully understood.
Example: "The report highlighted a string of previous incidents that led to the current situation."
Alternatives: "a series of prior" or "a sequence of earlier".
The 27-year-old had a string of previous arrests.
One may have had a string of previous offences, and the other none.
Gordon, of no fixed address, had a string of previous convictions.
The unwavering goal is to disarm Iraq, enforcing a string of previous Security Council resolutions that Baghdad has contemptuously ignored.
One woman told the instructor that she had missed a string of previous classes because she was grappling with fatigue, a side effect of her new cancer medication.
There have been a string of previous cases that have come before the courts where employees have sought to claim religious freedom at work.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, the firm — which has invested in a string of winners in previous years, including Box, SolarCity, Tesla, Twitter and Twilio — seems to think it's early innings for what looks to be a good year for IPOs.
After a string of amusing cameos at previous awards ceremonies, Gervais had been selected as the first Globes host in 15 years (in the past, they used a Tannoy system).
BEFORE he led the conservative Liberal-National coalition to power in 2013, Tony Abbott had promised to fix Australia's "budget emergency" by turning a string of deficits under the previous Labor government into surpluses.
BEFORE he led the conservative Liberal-National coalitoon to power in 2013, Tony Abbott promised to fix Australia's "budget emergency" by turning a string of deficits under the previous Labor government into surpluses.
He shows in detail how the king failed to see that his former military tutor, General Alfonso Armada, was the linchpin of the 1981 plot, even though the general had made his ambitions clear enough at a string of meetings over the previous months.
