Kdaj se a year earliernanaša? Ali to pomeni enako kot previous year?
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Rebecca
a year earlierv tem scenariju se nanaša na leto 1984. Računalnik Macintosh je bil izdan 24. januarja 1984. Na splošno a year earlierpomeni isto stvar kot previous year, vendar je odvisno od konteksta, v katerem ga uporabljate. Primer: He was born in 1994. The previous year Bill Clinton became the president of the United States. (Rodil se je leta 1994; le leto preden je Bill Clinton postal predsednik Združenih držav.) Primer: He was born in 1994. A year earlier, Bill Clinton became the president of the United States. (Rodil se je leta 1994; leto pred tem je Bill Clinton postal predsednik Združenih držav.) Primer: They just bought a new home. The previous year they were just scraping by. (Pravkar so kupili novo hišo; lani so grabljali denar.) Primer: They just bought a new home. A year earlier, they were just scraping by. (Pravkar so kupili novo hišo; pred letom dni so grabljali denar.)
