"previous" = previously

[Jonathan Lighter]

Historically this is no big deal, but it was surprising to see it in a mid-screen caption in the film _Brick_ (2005):

  TWO DAYS PREVIOUS

  This gives me the feeling that this construction is on the brink of becoming standard.  It seems to me that I frequently heard NYC policemen using it on the local news thirty or more years ago.

  JL

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