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

2.   The previous holder of the post, Hugo Ernesto Denegri Cornejo, had himself been appointed only shortly after the coup.

3.   At a lower level, the portership of Beeston went to William Brenner after the death of the previous holder.

4.   Previous holders of the professorship include Stephen Sondheim, Ian McKellen, Alan Ayckbourn, Michael Codron, Peter Shaffer and Arthur Miller.

5.   Since the item ran, mildly ticked-off producers from nonprofit theaters have called to say they were the previous record holders.

6.   But the seat remained in the hands of the previous holder, representing the ousted government of President Burhanuddin Rabbani.

7.   Geremek met Tuesday with the foreign ministers of Denmark, the previous holder of the OSCE chairmanship, and Norway, the next holder of the rotating position.

8.   Often, he abruptly took the contracts from their previous holders to do so.

9.   Norway and Denmark are previous holders of the rotating OSCE chairmanship.

10.   Previous holders of the post include South African President Nelson Mandela and Terry Waite, an Anglican priest formerly held hostage in Lebanon.