'previous manner' is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it to refer to the way something was done in the past, in comparison to the way it is done now. For example, "The company has changed the way it holds staff meetings since last year - they now have an online meeting rather than gathering in person as they did in the previous manner."
And actually, there is a residually "serious" moment in Pineapple Express: when the two guys begin to get high, the mood and tempo shifts, briefly, to Gordon's previous, quasi-visionary manner.
For Dubuffet, that culture was mostly his previous work: all manner of scrawls, scribbles, patterns and doughy figures painted on paper that he cut up and glued on canvas, forming a crazy-quilt papier collé.
The first time around, when he succeeded Duncan Fletcher, it was said the old lags in the side, used to the previous coach's manner and ways, could not take Moores' in-your-face challenging methods, something that most notoriously manifested itself when he insisted on a full-on training session right after a one-day international as a demonstration of physical and mental intent.
We hope the discipline is up for the task and the coming generation of biostatisticians embraces the challenges of neuroimaging in the same manner previous generations embraced the genomics revolution.
In a similar manner, previous studies shown that deletion of the liver IGF-I resulted in a dramatic reduction in circulating IGF-I but had no effect upon normal growth, and it wasn't until the acid labile subunit (ALS) was also deleted that levels went below a threshold needed to see an effect upon overall body growth [ 29, 30].
Cornering is confident in a manner few previous hybrids could match.
His manner in previous interviews has been not unfriendly, but subtly defensive.
Prosecutors were dissatisfied with Mr. Gore's answers during the interview, which was conducted in a far more confrontational manner than previous sessions had been, the officials said.
It was always hard to picture the place; the war didn't enter the popular imagination in songs that everyone soon knew by heart, in the manner of previous wars.
