He was the previous record holder, having set a time of 18.58 seconds in 2008.

She was about to take on a job whose previous holder had just been fired specifically to make room for her.

Ratings for this ceremony were 14% lower than the previous record holder.

The asteroid beat the previous record holder, a larger 1994 rock, by about 10,000 miles.

They did not have a vote negated by the previous holder.

The last few champions have added less than 10 percent to the height of the previous record holder.

This is 1/64th the size of the previous record holder, the mu-chip.

This exceeded the previous record holder of 183.086 mph that was set in 2001.

Powell subsequently took up the presidency when the previous holder left.

The previous record holder, detected more than a year ago, had a redshift of 6.28.