previous experience

collocation in English

meaningsofpreviousandexperience

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previous
adjective[before noun]
uk
/ˈpriː.vi.əs/us
/ˈpriː.vi.əs/
happening or existing before something or ...
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experience
noun
uk
/ɪkˈspɪə.ri.əns/us
/ɪkˈspɪr.i.əns/
(the process of getting) knowledge or skill from doing, seeing, or ...
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(Definition ofpreviousandexperiencefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The perceived costs and benefits of action will be related topreviousexperienceof health-care seeking and illness behaviour.
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All children reportedpreviousexperiencewith computers and were tested using the same apparatus.
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Evidently new and innovative procedures were timely - here was a sizable industrial undertaking (the cleanup) with very littlepreviousexperienceto build on.
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Getting the course organised was more daunting for volunteers who did not havepreviousexperiencein this area.
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Persistent structural modifications in nucleus accumbens and prefrontal cortex neurons produced bypreviousexperiencewith amphetamine.
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Accordingly, people who are younger, lower salaried and withpreviousexperiencetend to purchase more than those who are older, higher salaried and without experience.
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Previousexperienceof depression was linked to the severity of the present episode.
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There are indications, however, that somepreviousexperiencein phonology, and linguistics in general, is assumed.
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In such situations a designer'spreviousexperiencecan be useful in picking candidate constraints to test for dominance.
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Rules are used with a certain probability depending on an agent'spreviousexperiencewith them.
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Moreover, infants'previousexperiencewith these images would have occurred in a very similar context, on a television screen.
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All but one participant (in the ' learning disability ' group) hadpreviousexperienceof a blood test.
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It should be noted that 17 out of the 22 participants reportedpreviousexperienceof volunteering.
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It could not consolidate its gains frompreviousexperience.
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The constructed memory forms an interpretation of thepreviousexperienceaccording to the current interactions between the agent and the environment.
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Psycholinguistic experiments show that fluent adults resolve such ambiguities by rapidly exploiting a variety of probabilistic constraints derived frompreviousexperience.
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Each privatization built onpreviousexperiencecreating a system of sectoral peculiarities.
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As already noted, we assume that the authors have a computer science background, but nopreviousexperiencein natural language generation.
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Therefore, it is natural to expect people to use them again and again ifpreviousexperienceof using a focal point has been successful.
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Individuals withpreviousexperienceof the financial markets made an active investment decision to a larger extent than other individuals.
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