The previous May had passed unregarded while George was still in his bed, drooping and ambitionless.

I'd hired myself a private investigator the previous May when my name showed up as one of the four finalists on somebody's hit list.

But it had happened the previous May.

He had managed to finish the planting of ten thousand acres of wattle begun the previous May.

These records also show a gap in service from that time to the previous May.

No rain had fallen since the previous May, but the winter rains could start anytime.

Alexander had graduated without distinction from Harvard in the previous May.

After all, she had learned of the existence of this file the previous May.

She was eighteen years old and had graduated from high school the previous May.

I'd stayed with Henry until the construction was finished, moving back into the apartment on my birthday the previous May.