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Bookmark or Share- Last week VS Past week VS Previous week [duplicate]You would use "previous" week with some particular reference to what it was previous to: Christmas will be a holiday, and in the previous week (ie previous to Christmas) staff will be permitted to finish at 4)
- phrases - "Before last year" vs "the year before last" - English ...Before last year designates an indefinite timespan which ended at the beginning of last year. If you say I finished school before last year we understand that you finished school at some unspecified time before last year. It might have been 2013, it might have been 2012, it might have been 1990 or 1980 or 1970 or 1960 ...
- grammar - 'In' the past few years Vs 'Over' the past few years ...So one would say "I learned to drive over the past three years," but "I took my drivers' test sometime in the past year." Where it gets a bit tricky is that multiple discrete events can be described as one continuous trend - so you could say either "I had met him several times in the past year," or "I had met him several times over the past ...
- time - Difference between last year and in the last year, and the ...In fact, there are many other definitions of "year", not only in English - the financial year, for example, is a fixed 12-month period that does not correspond to the calendar year. Context would have the greatest bearing on what a person meant by either "last year" or "in the last year".
- definite article - "past year" vs "last year" vs "previous year ...Last year too is often used broadly rather than exactly, and to refer to a period during the year rather than the whole year. To say that she was ill last year would be taken to mean at some point or duration during the year and not for all 365 days. The previous year (or the year before) refers to the calendar year prior to the year being ...
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